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Welcome to , our weekly polling roundup.President Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the election has sown distrust in the election, especially among Republicans.According to a new , about three in four Republicans now doubt the fairness of the 2020 presidential election, even though there is that the electoral process was compromised in a way that could affect the outcome. And as you can see in the chart below, distrust among Republicans has skyrocketed since Election Day.Monmouth isn’t the only pollster to find very high levels of distrust among Republicans, either. A this week found that 73 percent of Republicans had little or no confidence that the election was conducted fairly and a found that 67 percent of Republicans thought that the 2020 election was either “probably” or “definitely” not free and fair.It’s important to stress that all three pollsters did find that a majority of Americans accepted the results — roughly 6 in 10 — but what is worrisome is that only about 4 in 10 said they were very confident that the election was conducted fairly and accurately.This is troubling, because as my colleague Perry Bacon, Jr. wrote earlier this week , there are now very real questions about American democracy and whether it will remain intact.This, of course, isn’t Trump has tried to sow doubt in the democratic process. Before and after the 2016 election, Trump that millions of undocumented immigrants were going to vote in the election, or that “people that have died 10 years ago are still voting,” even though there was that these claims were true. And, as was the case election, Republicans once again were as they went to the polls.The key difference between now and 2016, though, is that after the election, a majority of Republicans are still unwilling to accept the result. That wasn’t true of Democrats in 2016.Pre-election (10/15/16)Post-Election (1/28/17)Populationconfidentnot confidentconfidentnot confidentDiff.All66%3067%26+1Democrats84146528-19Independents53376128+8Republicans56417322+17Lest we think that Republicans are the only ones susceptible to having their view of the electoral process colored by the outcome, polling shows that some Democrats did lose confidence in the election after Trump won in 2016. Nevertheless, a majority of Democrats (as well as Republicans and independents) believed that votes were counted accurately after the election was over. So the finding in this latest round of polls, that roughly three in four Republicans don’t have faith in the electoral process, is a big departure from what public opinion polls found after the last election.It’s hard to know what this means for American democracy — Biden’s claim to the presidency doesn’t seem to be in real jeopardy — but these first few post-election polls lay bare the consequences to sowing disinformation in America’s electoral process.According to FiveThirtyEight’s , 44.3 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while 52.4 percent disapprove (a net approval rating of -8.1 points). At this time last week, 44.6 percent approved and 52.3 percent disapproved (for a net approval rating of -7.7 points). One month ago, Trump had an approval rating of 42.7 percent and a disapproval rating of 54.1 percent, for a net approval rating of -11.3 points.Dhrumil Mehta was a database journalist at FiveThirtyEight.Filed underYou are now subscribed!Email AddressSign me up

Welcome to , our weekly polling roundup.President Trump’s refusal to accept the outcome of the election has sown distrust in the election, especially among Republicans.According to a new , about three in four Republicans now doubt the fairness of the 2020 presidential election, even though there is that the electoral process was compromised in a way that could affect the outcome. And as you can see in the chart below, distrust among Republicans has skyrocketed since Election Day.Monmouth isn’t the only pollster to find very high levels of distrust among Republicans, either. A this week...

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