Two-thirds of Republicans don't believe Biden was elected legitimately
By: Ben Kamisar (NBC News)
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Oct. 25, 2022, 3:30 PM UTC
By Ben Kamisar
Almost two years after President Joe Biden won the presidential election, the majority of Republicans still do not believe that election was legitimate.
New polling from NBC News shows just 22% of registered Republican voters believe in the legitimacy of Biden's election, with 65% viewing his election illegitimate.
That makes Republicans an outlier — overall, 60% of registered voters believe Biden's election was legitimate and 33% do not. One-hundred percent of Democrats and 74% of independents view his election as legitimate, along with a majority of white voters, voters of colors, independents, voters in cities and suburbs, as well as voters across all regions and age groups.
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The only subgroups in the new poll that don't believe in the legitimacy of Biden's election are those who are correlated with stronger support for Republicans.
Just 19% of those who voted for former President Trump in 2020 believe that election was legitimate, along with 22% who want the GOP to win control of Congress this fall, 22% of white evangelicals, 34% of rural voters and 43% of white working-class voters.
Overall, confidence in Biden's election has stayed virtually stagnant since the Jan. 2021 poll. Democratic belief in the election's legitimacy rose 4% points from 96% to 100%, as the share of independents rose from 62% to 74%.
But Republicans remained steady — just 21% said in Jan. 2021 that Biden's election was legitimate, and 22% said so in the Oct. 2022 poll.
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Thirty-one percent of Republicans who say they support the party primarily over Trump believe in the legitimacy of Biden's election, compared to just 5% of those who support Trump primarily over the national Republican Party.
The NBC News poll was conducted Oct. 14-18 of 1,000 registered voters — 750 of whom were reached by cellphone — and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.1 percentage points.
Ben Kamisar
Ben Kamisar is a deputy political editor in NBC's Political Unit.
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A couple days ago I remember one of the liberals here stating the same thing that is in this headline.
"Link" cried the local election deniers.
Ok boys, here's your link.
Yet some here cannot see the damage Trump has done to the nation and to the GoP.
2/3 of Democrats believe Russia tampered with vote totals in 2016.
Yet some deny the damage democrats have done to our nation
I am sure they polled every damn US citizen in the country. Oh wait, I know they didn't poll me.
Polls can be made to say anything the pollster wants them to. They use wording, sampling area, and over and under sampling to get the desired results.
Why didn't they ask everyone if they 2016 election was legitimate? That would have been a good offset question to Democrats; Republicans, and Independents. Of course they didn't want to know the answer to that because there are still Democrat nutters out there claiming Clinton won. Including the lead nutter herself Hillary.
Care to claim Hillary didn't damage the Democrat Party?
The nations faith in elections was perfect in 2020. 20 years of election denial and undermining election legitimacy (suppression!) never happened and didn't poison the well.
It was all Trump polluting a country with perfect faith in our elections.
There is no such fucking thing as the "Democrat Party". It is an invention of right wing idiots who think it is a "gotcha" .
There is a "Democratic Party".
"There is a "Democratic Party"."
There is a party but I do not find them very Democratic.
That's all you got, a spelling error? Fuck......
Are you trying to be cute, or do you just not know what you are talking about?
It's not a spelling error.
I'll give you the chance to back out.
I know lots of registered republicans but have yet to find one that believes Joe isn't the legitimate president.
I'm sure there are some (probably very small) number who think that.
But it's interesting that the NBC stories appear to disagree with the polling data they link to. I find myself wondering why.
Interesting.
The linked polling results don't seem to support this.