A judge in Iowa has dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against The Des Moines Register and its former pollster. Trump sued in December 2024, accusing pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Iowa newspaper of publishing a survey that misrepresented the state of the presidential race that year.
Judge Scott Beattie on Sept. 23, 2026, dismissed with prejudice Trump's Iowa poll lawsuit, ruling the "Iowa Poll and its reporting are fully protected political speech."
By Brian Stelter, Liam Reilly, CNN (CNN) — An Iowa judge has dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling company, the Des Moines Register and Gannett.In a written ruling on Wednesday, Judge Scott Beattie of Iowa’s Fifth Judicial District threw out the lawsu…
(CNN) — An Iowa judge has dismissed former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, her polling company, the Des Moines Register and Gannett. In a written ruling Wednesday, Judge Scott Beattie of Iowa’s Fifth Judicial District threw out the lawsuit by Trump, Rep.
An Iowa judge sided with pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register, saying that allowing the lawsuit and its "faulty" claims to proceed could "discourage others from reporting on and debating public affairs."
A district judge tossed an election interference lawsuit by President Trump against the Des Moines Register, parent company USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett) and pollster Ann Selzer , rejecting claims that its inaccurate pre-election poll amounted to consumer fraud.
An Iowa judge has tossed President Trump’s lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register over polling numbers they published days before the 2024 general elections. In a Wednesday ruling, Iowa District Court Judge Scott J.
Trump’s suit “seeks to stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protection into a liability,” the judge wrote.
An Iowa judge tossed out President Donald J. Trump’s lawsuit against vaunted pollster Ann Selzer over a 2024 pre-election poll showing him being beaten by Kamala Harris […]
A state judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and the Des Moines Register on Wednesday over a 2024 poll that inaccurately showed then-Vice President Kamala Harris in the lead.
An Iowa judge has tossed out Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer, concluding that the president and his allies “stretch both Iowa statutory and common law beyond their current bounds, turning speech that enjoys the highest category of First Amendment protec…
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