An ABC News/Ipsos poll shows 71% of Republicans believe Trump's false claims of electoral fraud.
released this week found that seven in 10 Republicans agree with Trump’s false contention that Biden’s victory was illegitimate. And 52% of Republicans said they agree with the notion that rioters at the Capitol were"protecting democracy" more than they were"threatening democracy."
Republicans have broadly cast the new measures as streamlining and cost-cutting measures that are in keeping with state legislatures’ power to oversee elections. But coming just after Trump’s demands that state lawmakers engage in extra-legal measures to overturn an election, the impact could be significant.
"I don’t think history is going to be kind to those folks that just didn’t stand up and say, 'This is wrong,'"Duncan told ABC."What we’re feeling is the vacuum of leadership inside the Republican Party." Kaine said that in his view, the attempt to alter the course of democracy continues, just in more subtle ways than by rioters carrying MAGA flags and wearing white-supremacist T-shirts.
In that same state, Trump is now backing primary challengers against major Republicans who didn’t follow his lies. Some Republicans like Duncan hope races like those will demonstrate for GOP voters the folly of pursuing falsehoods that have the party looking backward and inward.
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