Republicans' trust in accuracy of US elections jumps after Trump's win, AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll finds that Republican voters are once again confident in the accuracy of U.S. elections now that Donald Trump has won. About 6 in 10 Republicans said they trust the 2024 vote count. That's a leap from only 2 in 10 who said in October they believed the count would be accurate. That low share followed years of Trump sowing doubt among his supporters over the accuracy of U.S. elections. He did so to explain away his 2020 loss. The poll found a slight dip in Democratic confidence in the vote count. But no top Democrat has encouraged voters to distrust elections as Trump did after the 2020 election.