Top pollster announces retirement after misfiring so badly on massively hyped Iowa poll

The sterling reputation of vaunted pollster Ann Selzer took a major blow after her heavily hyped poll predicting that Kamala Harris would whip Donald J. Trump in Iowa turned out to be fake news and now she’s calling it a career.

Her final forecast for the Des Moines Register/Mediacom was a bombshell showing the Democrat nominee surging into a late lead in the Hawkeye State by 47 to 44 percent, a final shot of hopium into the veins of Harris backers and the media who ignored the fact that Trump easily won Iowa in 2020 and 2016, to predict that she would win the election, touting Selzer’s previously impeccable record.

“It’s hard for anybody to say they saw this coming,” Selzer said. “She has clearly leaped into a leading position.”

But alas, reality intruded with Trump walloping the vice president by 56-43 percent, a 13-point difference, on his way to a landslide victory that may have permanently ended the DEI regime, along with the credibility of mainstream media polling.

The now-discredited poll was so wildly off the mark that Selzer is retiring from election polling.

“Over a year ago I advised the Register I would not renew when my 2024 contract expired with the latest election poll as I transition to other ventures and opportunities,” Selzer announced in an op-ed for Iowa’s top newspaper.

“Would I have liked to make this announcement after a final poll aligned with Election Day results? Of course. It’s ironic that it’s just the opposite.” she wrote.

Selzer’s announcement was ridiculed by X users with some chiding her over letting her bias influence the poll that will be the one that everyone remembers her for with others suggesting that she “cooked the books” for what would be her grand finale.

“Congratulations to Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance on their victory. After four years under Kamala Harris, Hawkeye state voters are eager for President Trump to fix what Kamala Harris broke. Starting on Day 1, President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will help to ease costs, secure the border, and protect Social Security for retirees like Ann Selzer,” the Trump campaign said in a statement after he easily won Iowa on election night.

Chris Donaldson

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