Despite the media’s best efforts to mock claims of 2020 voting fraud, or “the Big Lie,” one-third of the nation believes President Joe Biden beat former President Donald Trump “only due to voter fraud.”
What’s more, as Democrats, the president, and media allies team up to slam voter identification as an intimidation tactic, a surprising 80% want it.
And the latest Monmouth University poll on voting and elections said that the country is divided on mail-in balloting, one of the big splits between Washington Democrats and Republican governors and legislatures.
“The continuing efforts to question the validity of last year’s election is deepening the partisan divide in ways that could have long-term consequences for our Democracy, even if most Americans don’t quite see it that way yet,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
The new survey is somewhat of a blow to the mainstream narrative that the public wants easy and expanded access to voting and doesn’t believe reports of fraud during the 2020 voting process.
Monmouth said the most notable finding was that 8 in 10 adults want voter ID. Just 18% oppose it.
Next was the sustained third of adults who still feel Trump lost because of Democratic voter fraud. Said the analysis:
“One-third (32%) of Americans continue to believe that Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 was due to voter fraud – a number that has not budged since the November election. At first glance in the crosstabs, it looks like the number of ‘Republicans’ who believe this has been trending down while the number of independents who agree has ticked up. However, this appears to be a product of a shift in how Republicans identify themselves, with some moving their self-affiliation from being partisan to being an ‘independent’ who leans partisan. When all Republican identifiers and leaners are combined, the number who believe Biden won only because of voter fraud has been fairly stable (63% now, 64% in March, 69% in January, and 66% in November). Furthermore, 14% of the American public say they will never accept Biden as president, including 3 in 10 (29%) Republicans and Republican leaners.”
On voting reforms, there is a division over mail-in votes, but most want expanded early voting, said the survey.
