Analysis: The central question isn’t whether former president Donald Trump believed that rampant fraud occurred. Instead, it’s whether he used specific false claims to get the outcome he desired.
in a recorded call with Trump. But this was days before the Jan. 6, 2021, rally that Trump had been encouraging people to attend, and implying that the state of Georgia was unable to address his fraud claims aided that encouragement.Trump wants to use the indictment to claim that he will soon be able to prove the 2020 election was riddled with fraud because it again aids him politically to do so.
that 4 in 10 Americans think that Joe Biden did not legitimately win enough votes that year to be elected president — largely because more than two-thirds of Republicans hold that view. What’s remarkable is how consistent this has been. In the waning days of Trump’s presidency, 7 in 10 Republicans felt that Biden’s win was illegitimate. Two-and-a-half years later, after numerous investigations and endless debunkings of claims about the electionNotice the uptick in the most recent poll. That matches an uptick since March in the percentage of Republicans who think there exists solid evidence that Biden’s win wasn’t legitimate.
This increase might just be statistical noise; a six-point rise since March isn’t statistically significant. But it does overlap with Trump’s increased position in the Republican primary polls, suggesting that — if the trend holds — he’s consolidating both support in the upcoming voting and, perhaps, in his assertions that there is some as-yet-undiscovered fraud out there, just waiting for discovery. Pun intended.
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