Poll: Nearly 75% of Republicans Believe Trump’s Big Lie, Doubt Legitimacy of Biden’s Election Win

According to a caller canvass from the University of Massachusetts astatine Amherst, astir three-quarters of Republicans uncertainty the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s predetermination win.

71 percent of GOP respondents said they don’t believe Biden’s predetermination triumph was a just one, underscoring the interaction of erstwhile President Donald Trump’s falsehoods that the predetermination was stolen from him.

Of that number, 25 percent of GOP respondents said Biden’s triumph was “probably not legitimate,” and 46 percent said it was “definitely not legitimate.”

Only six percent of GOP respondents acknowledged Biden arsenic the rightful victor of the 2020 wide election, portion 15 percent said helium “probably” is.

The canvass recovered that the bulk of Americans–that’s 58 percent–believe the predetermination was some escaped and just but the findings are peculiarly sobering successful airy of the continued pushback from Republicans who, spurred by Trump’s lies, person continued to undermine the integrity of an predetermination Trump lost.

“Given the continued questioning of Biden’s triumph by salient Republican elected officials, blimpish media personalities and erstwhile President Trump, it is nary astonishment that 7 successful 10 Republicans, conservatives and Trump voters presumption the results of the 2020 predetermination with skepticism, if not outright disbelief,” said Tatishe Nteta, an subordinate prof of governmental subject astatine UMass Amherst and the poll’s director.

Earlier this week, the House Select Committee tasked with investigating the January 6 insurrection announced it plans to merchandise an interim study connected its findings sometime during the summer.

“We privation to archer it from commencement to decorativeness implicit a bid of weeks, wherever we tin bring retired the champion witnesses successful a mode that makes the astir sense,” a elder committee adjutant told The Washington Post. “Our bequest portion and last merchandise volition beryllium the prime committee’s report.”

The committee antecedently announced it was investigating imaginable transgression enactment by erstwhile President Trump, who incited the insurrection and pushed his supporters to tempest the United States Capitol connected the mendacious premise that the 2020 predetermination had been stolen.

The committee said it would see referring Trump to the Department of Justice (DOJ) successful the lawsuit of compelling evidence.