{"id":107020,"date":"2024-08-30T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-thirds-of-americans-say-trump-unprepared-to-accept-the-election-outcome-poll\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T12:03:39","slug":"two-thirds-of-americans-say-trump-unprepared-to-accept-the-election-outcome-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/two-thirds-of-americans-say-trump-unprepared-to-accept-the-election-outcome-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-thirds of Americans say Trump unprepared to accept the election outcome: POLL"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(NEW YORK) — Most Americans say they and Kamala Harris alike are prepared to accept the outcome of the 2024 presidential election as legitimate. Donald Trump, not so much.<\/p>\n

Eighty-one percent of Americans in a new ABC News\/Ipsos poll say that regardless of which candidate they support, they are prepared to accept the outcome of the election. Fewer, but still 68%, see Harris as prepared to accept the outcome. Just 29% say the same about Trump.<\/p>\n

Nearly all of Harris’ supporters, 92%, say they personally are prepared to accept the outcome. That declines to 76% of Trump’s supporters. Instead, 21% of his supporters — which translates to 8% of all adults — are not prepared to do so.<\/p>\n

Other, sharper political divisions inform views in this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates with fieldwork by Ipsos. Just 6% of Harris’ supporters think Trump is prepared to accept the election outcome, rising to a still-mild 58% among his own supporters. Ninety-seven percent of Harris’ supporters think she is prepared to accept the outcome; among Trump’s supporters, only 44% think the same.<\/p>\n

See PDF for full results.<\/a><\/p>\n

Election integrity<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trump’s election denial claims resonate with some Americans.<\/p>\n

One in three (34%) lacks confidence that votes in the election will be counted accurately, similar to the share who said so in 2022. Sixty-five percent are very or somewhat confident in an accurate count; just half of them, 32%, are very confident.<\/p>\n

Moreover, an identical 34% think Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election, little changed since his inauguration.<\/p>\n

These views are strongly related: Nearly nine in 10 Americans who think Biden legitimately was elected are confident that votes will be counted accurately this year, dropping to 26% of those who think it wasn’t legitimate.<\/p>\n

Views on election integrity also are associated with preparedness to accept the outcome. Among people who are confident that votes will be counted accurately, 92% say they are prepared to accept the outcome, versus 61% of those who lack confidence in the count. And 91% of those who think Biden was legitimately elected are prepared to accept this year’s outcome, versus 64% of those who think not.<\/p>\n

Groups<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are wide gaps by partisanship in confidence in the vote count, with half of Republicans (51%) lacking confidence it will be accurate. Ninety percent of Democrats express confidence in the count, dropping to 64% of independents and just 48% of Republicans.<\/p>\n

In a similar pattern, 96% of Democrats think Biden was legitimately elected; 66% of independents and just 30% of Republicans agree.<\/p>\n

That said, partisan divisions in personal preparedness to accept the outcome this year are much milder. About eight in 10 Republicans (78%) and independents (81%) alike say they’ll accept it, as do 89% of Democrats.<\/p>\n

Ideology is another factor: At least eight in 10 people who are liberal, moderate or somewhat conservative are prepared to accept the outcome, dropping to 64% among those who identify themselves as very conservative.<\/p>\n

Just 38% of very conservatives are confident that votes will be counted accurately this year, rising to 50% of somewhat conservatives, 68% of moderates and 89% of liberals. And only 21% of very conservatives think Biden legitimately won in 2020; this doubles to 42% of somewhat conservatives, then jumps to 70% of moderates and 92% of liberals.<\/p>\n

METHODOLOGY \u2013 <\/strong>This ABC News\/Ipsos poll was conducted online via the probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel\u00ae Aug. 23-27, 2024, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 2,496 adults. Partisan divisions are 29-29-30%, Democrats-Republicans-independents. Results have a margin of sampling error of 2 percentage points, including the design effect, for the full sample. Sampling error is not the only source of differences in polls.<\/p>\n

The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, with sampling and data collection by Ipsos. See details on ABC News survey methodology here.<\/em><\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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