Iowa pollster Ann Selzer suggests her data could have galvanized Republican voters into proving it wrong

Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer wrote an op-ed for the Des Moines Register Thursday defending her poll claiming Vice President Kamala Harris would win the state.

Pollster J. Ann Selzer suggested her pre-election Iowa poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris in the lead had 'energize and activate Republican voters' to prove it wrong in her post-mortem Thursday.

My philosophy in public opinion research is to take my best shot at revealing the truth of a future event, in this case Election Day. Without fear or favor, we used the same method as the final poll this year to show a healthy Trump lead in both 2020 and 2016. Those turned out to capture the mood of the electorate reasonably well, though both took fire from Iowans who doubted the findings could be true,' she wrote.

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