The share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who believe that President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win was not legitimate has ticked back up, according to a new CNN poll fielded throughout July. All told, 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners say Biden’s win was not legitimate, up from 63% earlier this year and through last fall, even as there is no evidence of election fraud that would have altered the outcome of the contest.
70% is shocking for something so absurd. It’s like hearing that 70% of X group believe that the earth is flat.
What most of these statistics don’t show is that the republican party is shrinking.
If I have a 10,000 people in a room, and remove 6,000 of them from the room, then sample the remainder and tell you that 70% of those people believe that aliens built the pyramid, you’d be shocked, but what I didn’t tell you is that the 6,000 who were removed, left because they thought my claim was BS.
So even though the statistic is high, I imagine the MAGA base is shrinking as more evidence comes out. Maybe not by strides, but by slices.
I hope this is right, but it’s still a TON of people.