Just over a third of Republicans say they are very confident that their votes will be counted accurately in the upcoming state primary contest, according to a new poll.
An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll released Wednesday found that 37% of Republicans have “a great deal” or “somewhat” confidence in their party’s vote counting process.
Meanwhile, 32% said they had “little” or “no” confidence, and 31% said they had a “moderate” amount of confidence in early voting state counts.
In contrast, 72% of Democrats say they have a lot of confidence in their party’s ability to accurately count votes in key states, and 46% even say they have “a lot” or “somewhat” confidence in Republicans to do so.
Only 8% of Democrats expressed “little” or “no confidence” in their party’s primary vote count, while 19% expressed “moderate” confidence.
However, a majority of Republicans (58%) said they had “little” or “no confidence” that the Democratic Party would accurately count votes for its own contest.
Notably, 38% of independents expressed low confidence in Democrats’ vote-counting ability, while only 36% said the same about Republicans.
More than a third of Republicans are very confident that their votes will be counted accurately in the upcoming state primary contest, according to a new poll. AP An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey released today found that 37% of Republicans have “a great deal” or “somewhat” confidence in the vote count for the primary. AFP via Getty Images
Confidence is also low among Republicans that votes will be counted accurately in the 2024 general election, with only about a quarter of GOP respondents saying they have high confidence in the count.
Only 46% of US adults surveyed said the same.
Former President Donald Trump, who was impeached twice this year for his efforts to overturn election results in Washington, DC, and Georgia, is sticking to claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” — despite his senior lawyers and White House staff saying he lost to former Vice President Joe Biden.
However, a majority of Republicans (58%) have “little” or “no confidence” that the Democratic Party will accurately count votes for its own primary contests. AP
Former Attorney General William Barr also stated after Biden’s victory that the Justice Department found no evidence of widespread voter fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election.
“Not only did we not find any fraud of that magnitude, but, in the states, and when you actually look at the polls, they were very clear to me why he lost,” Barr said at the time.
“He ran as the weakest person on the Republican ticket. Like, in Pennsylvania, he got 60,000 votes under the Republican ticket.”
Former President Donald Trump, who has been impeached twice this year for his efforts to overturn election results in Washington, DC, and Georgia, is sticking to claims that the 2020 election was “rigged.” AP
The court also threw cold water on fraud claims brought by Trump’s lawyers after the election.
Special counsel Jack Smith, who indicted Trump in August on four counts over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is seeking to prove in court next year that the former president made “knowingly false” claims about the results.
However, one Trump 2020 voter echoed the former president’s claims when speaking to the Associated Press about a recent poll.
“Nothing will be fair because the last election was rigged,” Julie Duggan, 32, from Chicago, told the outlet. “I don’t trust any of them at this point.”
The voter’s lack of confidence is also underscored by a general pessimism about both political parties — and their ability to elect leaders who represent most Americans. AP
The voter’s lack of confidence is also underscored by pessimism about both political parties — and their ability to elect leaders who represent most Americans.
A third of Republicans are skeptical about the future of their party, and a quarter of Democrats say the same about their organization.
Independents are slightly more pessimistic about the future of the Republican Party (45%) than the future of the Democratic Party (41%).
Asked whether their party would choose a candidate whose views represent the majority of Americans, only three in 10 Democrats said they were confident the primary process would produce that.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley are a distant second and third in the GOP primary. AP
The same percentage of Republicans agreed when asked about their own presidential nomination contest.
“I think there’s got to be somebody better out there, but I don’t think another Democrat is going to unseat Joe Biden,” Mark Richards, a 33-year-old high school teacher in Toledo, Ohio, told the Associated Press.
“It’s all about money, who can get the most money from PACs and super PACs,” Richards added, pointing out that Biden’s low job approval numbers won’t affect the spending of large political committees.
Both Trump and Biden are the frontrunners for their party’s presidential nomination, leading the other candidates by more than 50% and 60%, respectively, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley are a distant second and third in the GOP primary, polling aggregators show, while spiritual guru Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-Minn.) netted low single-digit support behind Biden.
The AP/NORC poll was conducted between November 30 and December 4, with 1,074 US adults participating. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
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