President Donald Trump has quietly dropped a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and pollster Ann Selzer for a survey that showed former Vice President Kamala Harris ahead in Iowa before the 2024 presidential election.
"Plaintiffs President Donald J. Trump, Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks, and Former State Senator Bradley Zaun, give notice of their dismissal of this action," the group wrote in a motion on Monday.
Trump sued Selzer and the newspaper in December for a poll indicating he was losing the race in Iowa earlier that year.
The original lawsuit sought "accountability for brazen election interference committed by the Defendants in favor of now-defeated former Democrat candidate Kamala Harris."
"Contrary to reality and defying credulity, Defendants' Harris Poll was published three days before Election Day and purported to show Harris leading President Trump in Iowa by three points," the suit explained. "President Trump ultimately won Iowa by over thirteen points."
"Defendants and their cohorts in the Democrat Party hoped that the Harris Poll would create a false narrative of inevitability for Harris in the final week of the 2024 Presidential Election. Instead, the November 5 Election was a monumental victory for President Trump in both the Electoral College and the Popular Vote, an overwhelming mandate for his America First principles, and the consignment of the radical socialist agenda to the dustbin of history," attorneys for Trump added.