By JON MICHAEL RAASCH, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
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Voters have never doubted former President Joe Biden‘s clear2020 election win more, and it may be due to a relentless half-decade campaign by Donald Trump.
According to the latest Daily Mail/JL Partners survey, fewer than half of American voters now believe that Biden won the 2020 election.
Just 48 percent of respondents to the July survey said Biden definitively won.
Roughly one in five (18 percent) were unsure, while 34 percent said that Trump won the 2020 contest.
No evidence of fraud in the 2020 election has ever been established. Biden won the 2020 election with 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232 and by more than seven million ballots, a result that’s been certified by every state and upheld in countless court hearings.
According to the poll, however, almost three in four Republicans (70 percent) falsely believe Trump won the 2020 election, while just 15 percent will admit that Biden was victorious.
Conversely, 80 percent of Democrats say that Biden won the 2020 election, while one in ten liberals claim Trump came out on top.
Trump trotted out before TV cameras at the White House last Thursday to proclaim that China had meddled in the 2020 election and that there were nearly 275,000 noncitizens on US voter rolls.
A majority of US voters do not believe that former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, according to the latest Daily Mail/JL Partners survey
Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign before the 2020 contest
Since the 2020 election, he has maintained without evidence that he beat Biden, and many of his closest allies have defended that extraordinary claim, despite it having never been legally proven.
Flanked by his closest Cabinet officials and top White House aides last week, Trump stopped short of claiming that China’s influence changed the outcome of the election. He also notably did not announce any consequences for the US rival.
Still, some Republicans were left unconvinced after the President’s primetime address.
‘If it was meant to influence people like me, it didn’t get me there,’ Alaska GOP Senator Lisa Murkowski said after the speech.
Ben Ginsberg, a veteran GOP attorney who worked for President George W Bush’s campaigns, said: ‘What stood out to me is that there’s still no evidence of a result of any election being incorrect. There still were not the documents. There still was not the evidence.’
One Republican House member told the Daily Mail: ‘Just because China got voter data doesn’t mean they stole the election. You can buy that voter data.
‘It’s available for anyone who can pay for it, just for a few thousand dollars state by state. So we weren’t given any evidence after Trump’s speech. If that [Chinese interference] happened, we have real, real problems in this country.’
Just 48 percent of US voters polled in the latest Daily Mail/ JL Partners survey said that Joe Biden won the 2020 election
Trump and his first term Vice President Mike Pence on election night in 2020
In a statement to the Daily Mail,White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said:
‘President Trump is committed to ensuring that Americans have full confidence in the administration of elections, and that includes totally accurate and up-to-date voter rolls free of errors and unlawfully registered non-citizen voters.
‘This campaign pledge from the President is why millions of Americans sent him back to the White House.’
A January 2024 poll from the Washington Post and University of Maryland found that 62 percent of adults believed Biden’s 2020 win was legitimate, down from 69 percent in December 2021. Our new poll shows a clean continuation of that trend.
While many Republican lawmakers initially backed the President’s unfounded ‘stolen election’ claims in 2020, manyturned against Trump in the aftermath of the deadly January 6 riots at the US Capitol.