{"id":1989472,"date":"2023-08-03T08:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-republicans-believe-biden-2020-win-was-not-legitimate-ahead-of-trump-indictment-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-08-03T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:55:36","slug":"majority-of-republicans-believe-biden-2020-win-was-not-legitimate-ahead-of-trump-indictment-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-republicans-believe-biden-2020-win-was-not-legitimate-ahead-of-trump-indictment-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Most Republicans doubt Biden&#8217;s 2020 win, anticipate Trump&#8217;s indictment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajority-of-republicans-believe-biden-2020-win-was-not-legitimate-ahead-of-trump-indictment-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1989472&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A \u200dGrowing Number of Republicans Question Legitimacy of Biden&#8217;s Election Victory<\/h2>\n<p>Ahead of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s third indictment, the share of Republicans and right<a title=\"POLL: 80% of Americans Support Photo ID For Voters, 71% Support \u2018Easier\u2019 Early Voting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-80-of-americans-support-photo-id-for-voters-71-support-easier-early-voting\/\">-leaning independents<\/a> who say President\u2064 Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 election victory is illegitimate rebounded to almost 70%.<\/p>\n<p>According to a CNN poll, <strong>69%<\/strong> reported in \u200cJuly that they \u200ddidn&#8217;t\u2063 believe Biden legitimately \u2064won the presidential contest in 2020. Despite being farther out from \u2062the event, \u2063the number has ticked up from 63% last year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Donald Trump Indicted: Three Takeaways from Former President&#8217;s Third Indictment<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This \u2062number was\u200c at its \u2064highest in the \u200bsummer of 2021, directly after Biden&#8217;s inauguration and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, registering at 72%. It\u2063 later declined to 67% in January 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Of the GOP-aligning respondents, only <strong>39%<\/strong> said <a title=\"Most Republicans doubt Biden's 2020 win, anticipate Trump's indictment: Poll.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-of-republicans-believe-biden-2020-win-was-not-legitimate-ahead-of-trump-indictment-poll\/\">solid evidence exists<\/a>\u2063 for this \u2064belief. At the same time, <strong>30%<\/strong> reported having a suspicion that the win was illegitimate.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was\u200b conducted throughout July and has a \u2062margin \u200dof\u2063 error of plus or minus 5.7 points for results involving Republicans\u2062 and Republican-leaning independents.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Trump had just been hit the month prior with <a title=\"Trump pleads \u2018Not Guilty\u2019 to 37 charges in docs case\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pleads-not-guilty-to-37-charges-in-docs-case\/\">37 federal charges<\/a> in an indictment from special counsel Jack Smith regarding his\u200b taking and storage\u2062 of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago\u2064 residence in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Later last month, the former president \u2063received a target letter relating to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and efforts to overturn \u200bthe 2020 presidential election. An indictment was \u200cfurther predicted to follow imminently.<\/p>\n<p>While \u200cTrump was indicted in the matter on Tuesday, it was after polling data had already been gathered.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s support in Republican primary polling has reliably risen with each target letter and indictment, indicating \u2063that GOP voters are \u2063supportive\u2063 of him in various legal matters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here to read more from \u2064The Washington Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s primary competitors have mostly come to his defense, blaming the &#8220;weaponization&#8221; of the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Trump will be arraigned on four felony charges at\u200b the Elijah Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Donald Trump&#8217;s third indictment, nearly 70% of Republicans and right-leaning independents believe Joe Biden&#8217;s 2020 election victory is illegitimate, as per a CNN poll. In July, 69% expressed disbelief in Biden&#8217;s win. This sentiment persists despite the passage of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1989473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Most Republicans doubt Biden&#8217;s 2020 win, anticipate Trump&#8217;s indictment: Poll.","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1989472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Most Republicans doubt Biden&#8217;s 2020 win, anticipate Trump&#8217;s indictment: Poll.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1989472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1989473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}