Crossing the presidential Rubicon: Now Trump is taking pollsters to court 

President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against veteran pollster J. Ann Selzer for an off-target poll released just before last month’s election may be the first of its kind in a modern U.S. presidential election.  

In researching my book, “Lost in a Gallup,” a narrative history of prominent polling failures in presidential elections since 1936, I uncovered nothing akin to Trump’s litigation, which accuses Selzer of “brazen election interference.”  

The lawsuit may not survive what are likely to be sharp legal challenges.