A new poll revealed that around one-third of American voters said they believe President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected president in 2020.
The Washington Post/University of Maryland (Post-UMD) poll surveyed views surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Sixty-two percent of U.S. adults say they believe Biden was legitimately elected, down from 69 percent overall in the 2021 poll.
However, the most significant drop was from those who said the 2020 election results were legitimate came from Republicans, 31 percent in 2023.
The number is down from 39 percent two years earlier.
But 91 percent of Democrats say Biden was legitimately elected, a slight dip from 94 percent two years ago.
Sixty-six percent of independents say the incumbent was legitimately elected, down from 72 percent in December 2021.
Among those who get their information from Fox News, only about 3 in 10 people say the president’s election was legitimate, the Post noted.
The Hill reported that this poll comes as Trump remains the GOP front-runner in his bid to return to the White House in 2024 despite facing four criminal indictments with a total of 91 criminal charges.
Trump has maintained that he was the rightful winner of the presidency despite numerous election audits and more than 60 lawsuits that lost in court after failing to prove their claims that the election was unfairly decided.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election,” Trump’s then-attorney general, Bill Barr, said in the month following the 2020 presidential election, rejecting the former president’s repeated claims of election fraud.
The Post-UMD poll was conducted Dec. 14-18 among 1,024 U.S. adults and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points, with error margins larger for subgroups.
CNN reported:
Biden’s approval rating for protecting democracy in the U.S. has dipped into negative territory: 44% approve and 55% disapprove.
That stood at a near even 50% approve to 49% disapprove in December. That shift has come fairly evenly across party lines, and in the new poll, 84% of Democrats, 42% of independents, and 7% of Republicans approve of his handling of the issue.
The CNN Poll was conducted by SSRS from July 1 through July 31 among a random national sample of 1,279 adults initially reached by mail.
Surveys were either conducted online or by telephone with a live interviewer. Results for the total sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
For the example of 547 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, it is plus or minus 5.7 points.
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