Trump supporters drive lack of high confidence in election process in six battleground states, CNN polling finds

[Dennis Donovan]

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Jim Sciutto
We talk about foreign disinformation campaigns targeting the election but one of the most impactful has been domestic, led by Trump. Driven by his refusal to accept his 2020 loss but also now lays the groundwork to decertify 2024 results he doesn’t accept.

Trump supporters drive lack of high confidence in election process in six battleground states, CNN polling finds

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN

Published 7:00 AM EDT, Fri September 13, 2024

Most likely voters in six key battleground states express at least some confidence in their state’s election process, according to recent CNN polling conducted by SSRS. But far fewer of them have high confidence in the process, with that mistrust driven largely by voters who support former President Donald Trump.

Overall, two-thirds or more of likely voters in each of the six states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – say they’re at least somewhat confident that votes in their state will be cast and counted accurately, ranging from 68% in Arizona to 79% in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is the only state where a majority – 52% – say they’re very confident about the accuracy of their state’s voting process, with 46% in Michigan and only about 4 in 10 in the remaining states expressing similarly high confidence.

But the results in each state also show a wide and continuing political gulf on faith in the electoral system, echoing Trump’s repeated efforts to undermine confidence in it. At Tuesday’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump again refused to acknowledge his election loss in 2020 – a stance that follows social media posts made last week in which he threatened to prosecute election officials if he retakes the presidency and raised baseless attacks on the validity of mail-in voting in Pennsylvania.

While 71% of Harris supporters in the six states are, on average, very confident that votes in their state will be accurately cast and counted, an average of just 15% of Trump supporters across these states feel the same way. And sizable shares of Trump voters lack even modest confidence in the system.

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Sigh... not this shit again...

[ret5hd]

1. Let's state it more accurately:

trump’s supporters are pretty confident that trump is going to lose…and they don’t like that.

[LakeVermilion]

2. American's hate standing in lines...

Who is going to stand in line for 30 minutes in hot/cold/windy/rainy weather to vote? And then go somewhere else and vote again.

Hell, the Republicans have made minority voters stand in line for hours to vote. How could these voters find the time to do it twice?

In fact, hat's off to the people who have to overcome barriers to vote once. We should have a national holiday to vote.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. They are not entitled to their own facts.

Only Dear Leader has that power.

Don't peons know anything?