Nearly half of Trump supporters expect 2024 election will not have accurate vote counts
Nearly half of former President Donald Trump supporters do not think the results of the November election will be fairly reported, according to a new poll.
A USA Today/Suffolk poll reported that 42% of Trump supporters said they were "not confident" the count will be accurate.
Even though 56% of those likely to vote for Trump expressed some confidence of a fair election, the vast majority of those, 45%, say they're only "somewhat confident." Only 11% said they were "very confident" the election will be fair. More than a quarter of MAGA voters say they likely wouldn't accept the outcome if Trump loses.
Supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris are more confident in the fairness of the election. Just 2% expressed doubt in the accuracy of election results. Another 68% of likely Harris voters said they were "very confident" in the fairness, with 29% who were only "somewhat confident."
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The USA Today/Suffolk poll has a margin of error of 3.1%, and polled 1,000 people via telephone between August 25-28.
Trump has been seeding doubts among his followers about the fairness of the election. He's said he'll commit to the election results only "if everything's honest." He's said the same thing in the 2016 and 2020 elections, which he didn't. In 2016, when he won, he accepted the results. But in 2020, he famously didn't, and his followers rioted in the nation's capital on January 6, 2021 in an attempt to stop the election certification.
Trump continues to say the 2020 election was "rigged," even as recently as last week. Trump and his lawyer, Alina Habba, posted a New York Post headline to Trump's social network Truth Social. The Post reported that the Biden administration pressured Facebook to censor COVID misinformation and that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the platform should not have suppressed the reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop.
"This is exactly what this administration (WHICH INCLUDES KAMALA) has done to our country. Censorship is what happens in communist countries not this republic. They have gagged my client, his lawyers in and out of courtrooms and his team. Now, we once again have proof that they are gagging our media and censoring America. Kamala is hiding because she can’t answer for her actions. Still have doubts? TRUMP 2024 Make America Free Again," Habba wrote.
"This is what everyone’s been waiting for — THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WAS RIGGED!" Trump added.
There have been substantiated allegations of impropriety in the 2020 election. But Trump himself has been blamed in those instances, facing accusations of election interference.