Trumps subvert election series#
They released the new polls as part of a series of reports about the manufactured “crisis of confidence” in US elections. The organization was among the first to raise the alarm last summer about the potential for unprecedented political violence if the 2020 election was disputed – warnings that became a reality with the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Bush’s legitimacy, and 76% of Hillary Clinton voters in 2016 accepted Trump’s as president. That pales in comparison to similar surveys conducted by Gallup after previous controversial elections – 68% of Al Gore voters in 2000 accepted George W. This set the stage for Trump, GOP lawmakers, and right-wing media outlets to continue pushing the lie that the election was “rigged,” which Trump did yet again in a press release this week.Īdditionally, only 34% of Trump voters said they would accept Biden as the legitimate president, according to the post-election polls. Another 54% said Trump should never concede, and a plurality said state legislatures should override the popular vote.
Their polls found that after the election, a supermajority of Republicans backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the results: 86% said his legal challenges were appropriate, 79% said they weren’t confident in the national vote tally, and 68% said Trump really won. The research was conducted by the Democracy Fund, a nonpartisan foundation that studies voter attitudes toward democratic institutions and works to strengthen democracy in the US. New polls released Thursday show just how far Republicans were willing to go to support then-President Donald Trump’s unprecedented efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
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