Nearly one-third of American adults say they believe President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected president of the United States in 2020, according to a new poll.
Washington Post/University of Maryland (Post-UMD) Research; Released on Tuesday As the third anniversary of the riot approaches on Saturday, we examine the evolving view of the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. A similar poll was also conducted in December 2021.
As of last month, 62% of U.S. adults said they believed Biden was legitimately elected, down from 69% overall in the 2021 survey.
Republicans saw the biggest decline in respondents saying the 2020 election results were legitimate, dropping to 31% in 2023. This number is down from 39 percent two years ago.
Among Democrats, 91% say Biden was legitimately elected, down slightly from 94% two years ago, while 66% of independents say the incumbent was legitimately elected, and 66% of independents say Biden was legitimately elected. This was down from 72% as of December 2019.
The newspaper pointed out that among people who primarily get their information from Fox News, only about three in 10 said the presidential election was legitimate.
The poll comes as Trump remains the Republican front-runner to return to the White House in 2024, despite facing a total of 91 criminal charges. Two of the cases relate to his efforts to remain in power after losing the 2020 election to Biden.
Trump has maintained that he is the rightful winner of the presidential election despite numerous election audits and more than 60 lawsuits he has lost in court that failed to prove his claims that the election was unfairly decided. .
President Trump's then-Attorney General Bill Barr said the month after the 2020 presidential election that “to date, we have not seen any fraud on a scale that would affect a different outcome of the election” and that the former president denied repeated claims. Election fraud.
The post-UMD poll was conducted Dec. 14-18 among 1,024 U.S. adults and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points, with larger margins of error for subgroups.
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