Democrats try to work out their variations as Biden prepares to take workplace. However throughout get together traces, lots feels unbridgeable. It
Democrats try to work out their variations as Biden prepares to take workplace. However throughout get together traces, lots feels unbridgeable. It’s Friday, and that is your politics tip sheet.
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Seven in 10 Republican voters assume Biden’s win is illegitimate, ballot finds
Biden has made a message of nationwide unity central to his presidential transition, however he faces a problem in bringing collectively a rustic that merely can’t agree on primary information anymore.
The depth of the divide could be seen in a smattering of latest polls, which have discovered a basic disagreement between Democrats and Republicans over the very legitimacy of Biden’s win.
In a Quinnipiac College ballot launched yesterday, 70 p.c of Republican registered voters mentioned Biden’s win was not reputable, whereas simply 23 p.c mentioned it was. Amongst white male registered voters, solely 47 p.c mentioned Biden had gained truthful and sq..
Comparatively, 98 p.c of Democrats mentioned Biden had gained legitimately.
Requested about whether or not there had been important voter fraud — because the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed, however failed to seek out — 77 p.c of Republicans mentioned sure. Ninety-seven p.c of Democrats mentioned no.
The outcomes of this ballot dovetail with these of a Pew Analysis Heart survey carried out in mid-November, after most main information shops had referred to as the election however earlier than President Trump’s authorized workforce had suffered a few of its most humiliating losses in court docket.
Whereas 94 p.c of Biden voters mentioned they had been at the least considerably assured the election had been “run and administered effectively,” simply 21 p.c of Trump voters mentioned the identical. And whereas 82 p.c of Biden voters had been very assured that their very own vote had been precisely counted, that quantity plummeted to 35 p.c amongst Trump voters.
The Pew ballot, revealed on Nov. 20, discovered that the majority Trump voters had been tired of letting bygones be bygones: Eighty-five p.c mentioned the president ought to proceed his “authorized challenges to the voting course of in a number of states.”
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