I am not just trolling, just having a conversation about this.
Trump can sue all he wants unfortunately, but it doesn't mean that they are anything more than the hot air that Trump has spouted the last 4 years.
Just because he needs 1 of say 60 frivolous lawsuits to work to get something that might overturn something in one state, doesn't mean that it is even a close to a 1/60 chance.
I see Republicans in congress as not really having anything that they can do to stop Trump because of McConnell. But I don't think that there is actually anything that they are doing that is technically breaking the law (Trump sure he is already trying to avoid jail time).
I agree with the concern, all it takes is a enough people in a handful of states to be willing to break the law and crown Trump king. But outside of the usual suspects on the Republican side and Trump's cultists that are radicalized into breaking the law in their executive branch roles, or the ones becoming domestic terrorists, I haven't seen anyone willing to break the law because Dear Leader wants them to.
Did some research on this:
Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly polling roundup. Poll(s) of the week President Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the election has sown distrust in th…
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More Republicans Distrust This Year’s Election Results Than Democrats After 2016
Poll(s) of the week
President Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the election has sown distrust in the election, especially among Republicans.
According to a new
Monmouth University poll, about three in four Republicans now doubt the fairness of the 2020 presidential election, even though there is
no evidence that the electoral process was compromised in a way that could affect the outcome. And as you can see in the chart below, distrust among Republicans has skyrocketed since Election Day.
Monmouth isn’t the only pollster to find very high levels of distrust among Republicans, either. A
YouGov/Economist poll this week found that 73 percent of Republicans had little or no confidence that the election was conducted fairly and a
Morning Consult/Politico poll found that 67 percent of Republicans thought that the 2020 election was either “probably” or “definitely” not free and fair.
It’s important to stress that all three pollsters did find that a majority of Americans accepted the results — roughly 6 in 10 — but what is worrisome is that only about 4 in 10 said they were very confident that the election was conducted fairly and accurately.
This is troubling, because as my colleague Perry Bacon, Jr. wrote earlier this week
on Trump’s refusal to concede, there are now very real questions about American democracy and whether it will remain intact.
[What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy]
This, of course, isn’t
the first time Trump has tried to sow doubt in the democratic process. Before and after the 2016 election, Trump
falsely claimed that millions of undocumented immigrants were going to vote in the election, or that “people that have died 10 years ago are still voting,” even though there was
never any evidence that these claims were true. And, as was the case
ahead of the 2016 election, Republicans once again were
more likely than Democrats to believe these fraudulent claims as they went to the polls.
The key difference between now and 2016, though, is that after the election, a majority of Republicans are still unwilling to accept the result. That wasn’t true of Democrats in 2016.
In 2016, both parties trusted the election results
Share of voters who were confident that votes across the country would be or were counted accurately, before and after the 2016 election
| PRE-ELECTION (10/15/16) | POST-ELECTION (1/28/17) | | | |
|---|
| POPULATION | CONFIDENT | NOT CONFIDENT | CONFIDENT | NOT CONFIDENT | DIFF. |
|---|
| All | 66% | 30 | 67% | 26 | +1 |
| Democrats | 84 | 14 | 65 | 28 | -19 |
| Independents | 53 | 37 | 61 | 28 | +8 |
| Republicans | 56 | 41 | 73 | 22 | +17 |
SOURCE: MORNING CONSULT
Lest we think that Republicans are the only ones susceptible to having their view of the electoral process colored by the outcome, polling shows that some Democrats did lose confidence in the election after Trump won in 2016. Nevertheless, a majority of Democrats (as well as Republicans and independents) believed that votes were counted accurately after the election was over. So the finding in this latest round of polls, that roughly three in four Republicans don’t have faith in the electoral process, is a big departure from what public opinion polls found after the last election.
[What Blue And Red ‘Shifts’ Looked Like In Every State]
It’s hard to know what this means for American democracy — Biden’s claim to the presidency doesn’t seem to be in real jeopardy — but these first few post-election polls lay bare the consequences to sowing disinformation in America’s electoral process.
Other polling bites
- The presidential election might be over, but polls for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate runoff elections — which are scheduled for Jan. 5 and will decide which party controls the chamber — have already started to trickle in. Since Election Day, we have gotten two polls, one from Remington Research Group and another from InsiderAdvantage, that show the races could be close. The polls, both from right-leaning pollsters, show that the special election between Democrat Raphael Warnock and Republican Kelly Loeffler could be a toss-up, with the candidates virtually tied. A third poll of just the special election runoff, which was sponsored by a Republican PAC, shows Loeffler slightly ahead. In the other race, the Remington poll shows incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue leading his opponent, Jon Ossoff; the InsiderAdvantage poll shows that race tied. But these are just the first of many more polls to come, so be sure to keep an eye on our database of polls between now and January for a more rounded look at the polling.
- 58 percent of Americans said they would get a COVID-19 vaccine if an FDA-approved vaccine was available right now, according to a Gallup poll conducted in late October. Willingness to get vaccinated had dipped in September due, in part, to a sharp drop in support among Democrats, but now the share of Democrats willing to get vaccinated is bouncing back, while the share of Republicans and independents willing to get vaccinated has stayed constant.
- A HarrisX poll released on Tuesday found that 77 percent of Americans thought that Congress should pass a coronavirus relief package as soon as possible, while 23 percent said one is not needed because the economy is bouncing back on its own. This includes a majority of Republicans (64 percent) and Democrats (89 percent).
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