Ann Selzer, the pollster behind the Des Moines Register’s respected Iowa Poll, has announced her retirement just weeks after the survey incorrectly showed Vice President Kamala Harris with a 3 percentage point lead over Donald Trump in Iowa.

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

J. Ann Selzer, who wrongly predicted Iowa would turn blue and vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s election, is ending her polling career to take on new opportunities. “Would I have liked to make this announcement after a final poll aligned with Election Day results?

"My integrity means a lot to me," she explains. "To those who have questioned it, there are likely no words to dissuade" The post Iowa Pollster J. Ann Selzer Retires After Bad 2024 Election Call appeared first on TheWrap.

Pollster Ann Selzer announced her retirement from election polling after one of the biggest misses of the 2024 election cycle. Selzer, a highly accredited pollster, shocked the political world in the final week of the 2024 election when she released a poll in ruby-red Iowa showing Vice President Kamala Harris up by three points.