Opinion Weekend
January 4-5, 2025
Most are confident votes were counted accurately in the 2024 presidential election AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research A majority of the public has confidence that the vote count in the 2024 presidential election was accurate, though they have more faith in the vote tallies in their own locality or state than nationwide.
Republicans’ trust in accuracy of US elections jumps after Trump’s win, AP-NORC poll finds Linley Sanders and Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press A majority of Republicans say they are confident in the 2024 vote count after Donald Trump’s win, according to a new poll that finds a sharp turnaround from GOP voters’ skepticism about U.S. elections after the president-elect spent four years lying about his loss to President Joe Biden.
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