Surprise poll result has Harris leading in solid red Iowa [Video]

A surprise poll result out of Iowa by a respected pollster, released just days before the U.S. election, is calling into question whether the state is as solidly red as it once seemed.

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Based on comfortable victories in the past two elections and polls leading up to Tuesday’s election, Donald Trump had seemed almost certain to win the state.

But a new poll released Saturday has Kamala Harris with a sudden three-point lead in Iowa, a result news outlets and the pollster themselves are describing as a “shock.”

Though it’s just one poll, it was conducted by someone who has been described as the “best pollster in politics” and the “gold standard” for polling.

J. Ann Selzer, president of Selzer & Co., is known for predicting surprise results like Barack Obama winning the Iowa caucuses in 2008.

And when only a …