Sure, “renowned Iowa pollster” J. Ann Selzer has been wrong before. But this kind of wrong in the polling business can leave a mark. 

Selzer grabbed a lot of headlines a few days before the election (and not just from her home newspaper and Democrat Party shill, the Des Moines Register) with the shocking poll she did tracking the political sentiments of Hawkeye State voters. The Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll conducted by Selzer showed Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ replacement presidential candidate, leading former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s presidential nominee, by 3 percentage points (47 percent to 44 percent) in deep red Iowa. 

It seemed insane, because it was. 

Not Seeing Red 

Iowa was called for Trump by The Associated Press less than two hours after the state’s polls closed. With an estimated 95 percent of the vote counted as of publication, Trump is clobbering by 14 percentage points (56.3 percent to 42.3 percent), according to the Washington Post.

Trump won Iowa by nearly 10 percentage points in 2016, and by about 8 points in 2020, according to The New York Times. 

While the “red wave” predicted ahead of the 2022 midterms did not hit nationwide, it did hit Iowa. Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds easily won reelection, and Republicans seized control of all of the Hawkeye state’s House seats.

For the better part of a very long year, the first-in-the-nation caucus state showed Republicans from the start were firmly behind Trump. The former president outdistanced his nearest

Former President Donald Trump declared victory early Wednesday morning, after Wisconsin and Pennsylvania put him over the top in the race for the White House.

“Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason,” Trump said, referring to the summer attempt on his life that left him bloodied and left one supporter dead and two others injured.

Fox News projected Trump to win at least Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, as well as Georgia and North Carolina, which gave him more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency. He is the first to win the presidency in two non-consecutive terms since Grover Cleveland in 1892, setting him up to be the 45th and 47th president of the United States.

“This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have, this is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again,” Trump said in his speech. “We’re gonna make you very proud of your vote.”

Trump was flanked by his family at his campaign victory party in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was joined by vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, who also made remarks.

“We just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America,” Vance said. “And after the greatest political comeback in American history, we’re going to lead the greatest economic comeback in American history.”

Trump also remarked on down-ballot races, which appear to give him a

Nevada voters are projected to pass a ballot amendment requiring eligible electors to present a form of photo ID when voting and reject a separate initiative seeking to bring ranked-choice voting to the state.

According to The New York Times, preliminary results show the Voter Identification Initiative (Question 7) passing with 73 percent of electors voting “yes” and 27 percent voting “no.” At the time of this article’s publication, approximately 78 percent of votes have been tabulated.

As The Federalist previously reported, Question 7 would require eligible voters to present a valid form of photo ID when voting in person. Those voting by mail would “have to verify their identity using the last four digits of their driver’s license or social security number or the number provided by the county clerk when the voter is registered to vote,” according to Ballotpedia.

In Nevada, constitutional amendment proposals produced by citizen-led signature collection campaigns must be passed by voters in two consecutive general elections to amend the state’s founding document. This year’s election will be the voter ID initiative’s first appearance on the ballot, which means it will need to be approved by voters during the state’s next general election to add it to the Nevada Constitution.

Meanwhile, Nevadans rejected Question 3, which sought to implement a top-five ranked-choice voting (RCV) scheme in the state’s elections.

Often referred to as “rigged-choice voting” by its critics, RCV is an election system in which voters rank candidates of all parties in order of preference. If no candidate