{"id":3805,"date":"2020-11-11T15:35:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2020-11-11T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:35:49","slug":"poll-70-percent-of-republicans-dont-think-the-election-was-free-and-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 70 percent of Republicans don\u2019t think the election was free and fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;70 percent of Republicans now say they don\u2019t believe the 2020 election was free and fair, a stark rise from the 35 percent of GOP voters who held similar beliefs before the election. Meanwhile, trust in the election system grew for Democrats, many who took to the streets to celebrate Biden\u2019s victory on Saturday. Ninety percent of Democrats now say the election was free and fair, up from 52 percent before Nov. 3&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Among Republicans who believed that the election wasn\u2019t free and fair, 78 percent believed that mail-in voting led to widespread voter fraud and 72 percent believed that ballots were tampered with \u2014 both claims that have made a constant appearance on the president\u2019s Twitter thread. Like President Donald Trump, a majority of the people that thought the election was unfair, 84 percent, said it benefited Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/11\/09\/republicans-free-fair-elections-435488\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/11\/09\/republicans-free-fair-elections-435488<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;70 percent of Republicans now say they don\u2019t believe the 2020 election was free and fair, a stark rise from the 35 percent of GOP voters who held similar beliefs before the election. Meanwhile, trust in the election system grew for Democrats, many who took to the streets to celebrate Biden\u2019s victory on Saturday. Ninety percent of Democrats now say the election was free and fair, up from 52 percent before Nov. 3&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Among Republicans who believed that the election wasn\u2019t free and fair, 78 percent believed that mail-in voting led to widespread voter fraud and 72 percent believed that ballots were tampered with \u2014 both claims that have made a constant appearance on the president\u2019s Twitter thread. Like President Donald Trump, a majority of the people that thought the election was unfair, 84 percent, said it benefited Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[372,751,506],"class_list":["post-3805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-election","tag-polls","tag-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3806,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/3806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}