by Steve Byas, The New American:
The mainstream media would have us think that to believe the 2020 election was stolen, you must be a fringe character, a person who’d protest with a painted face beneath a fur hat and horns. But a new poll reflects a very different reality:
Americans are more likely than not to believe the 2020 presidential contest was rigged or stolen.
In fact, it’s people who insist that the election was valid and can’t imagine how anyone could suppose otherwise who are quite the minority — less than a quarter of the nation.
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The poll, conducted October 30 by Redfield & Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek, surveyed 1,500 eligible voters in the United States. Forty percent of these respondents agreed that the 2020 election was fraud-ridden.
“Of these, 24 percent ‘strongly agreed’ that the election was stolen while 16 percent ‘agreed,’” Newsweek elaborates.
Thirty-six percent of respondents believe the election was legitimate, yet 34 percent of this group said it was understandable that people could think otherwise.
“Some 15 percent of respondents neither agreed nor disagree[d] with the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, while eight percent said they didn’t know,” Newsweek also informs.
In other words, more than 52 percent of Americans believe either that the election was stolen/rigged or that this point of view is understandable, according to this poll. This accords with past research, too, as a March Rasmussen Reports survey found that by “a margin of 52% to 40%, voters believe that ‘cheating affected the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election,’” related RealClearPolitics earlier this year.
Moreover, returning to the Newsweek poll, when “we factor in those who believe that the election was not rigged, but understand why Americans are skeptical based upon the facts they’ve observed, we find that over three in four Americans (or 75.2 percent, given Newsweek’s numbers) think the election was rigged, understand why other Americans think the election was rigged, don’t know whether or not the election was rigged, or refused to take a position on the subject of a rigged election while talking to a pollster,” writes American Thinker’s William Sullivan, providing yet more perspective.
That fewer than one in four Americans believes that the 2020 contest was valid and that claiming otherwise is unfathomable — despite the drumbeat of establishment propaganda pushing this very position — is striking. But Sullivan has an explanation.
“We Americans aren’t buying that narrative because it’s obviously not true,” he writes.
“We saw it with our own eyes,” Sullivan continues. “And in case we didn’t see it, we were told by the conspirators who bragged about rigging the election while they did their victory lap.”
Sullivan then mentions Time’s Molly Ball, who “told readers all about the ‘secret history’ (that was not so secret for Americans who paid any attention at all in 2020) of the ‘shadow campaign that saved the 2020 election.’” The “participants,” Ball wrote, “want the secret history of the 2020 election told, even though it sounds like a fever dream — a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.”
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