A new US poll shows that a majority of Republicans in the United States believe that Donald Trump lost the race to Joe Biden by rigging the 2020 presidential election.
A majority of Republicans believe former President Donald Trump’s repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged for President Joe Biden, with a new poll from Reuters/Ipsos showing at least 53% think Trump is still the true president.
Fifty-six percent of Republicans believe Biden is in the White House due to “illegal voting or election rigging” and a combined 61% say they “strongly” or “somewhat” agree that the election was stolen from Trump. Only 30% of Republicans believed absentee or mail-in ballots were counted accurately, compared to 86% of Democrats and 55% of independents.
The repeated messages of widespread fraud or irregularities — which run counter to reality according to scores of bipartisan elected officials and experts — have helped convince Republicans to support an ongoing effort to restrict voting rights in dozens of states. Eight-seven percent of Republicans believe the government should place limits on voting to “protect elections from fraud,” the poll showed.
Trump’s own Homeland Security experts called the election “the most secure in U.S. history,” and said they found zero evidence that polling machines were tampered with, a frequent false claim spread by Trump lawyers, Republican politicians, and followers on social media. Trump’s own attorney general, William Barr, said the Justice Department investigated and found no evidence of widespread fraud.
