Remember This: Nearly Half Of Democrats Think The 2016 Election Was ‘Rigged’

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November 18, 2016 ~ Nearly half of Democrats think the 2016 presidential election was โ€œrigged,โ€ according to a new poll released this week by YouGov. The poll found that a whopping 42 percent of Democrats believe the election was rigged. Only 58 percent of Democrats responded that Donald Trump was โ€œlegitimatelyโ€ elected on November 8, 2020.

The Democratic belief that the 2016 presidential election was rigged in President-elect Donald Trumpโ€™s favor is especially ironic given the myriad attacks on Trump for suggesting that voter fraud could potentially swing an election. Just weeks before the election the Washington Postโ€˜s Philip Bump declared in the headline of one of his articles that Trumpโ€™s โ€œvoter fraud claims are ridiculous.โ€ Vox claimed that Trumpโ€™s voter fraud claims were โ€œbaselessโ€ and โ€œbased on a lie.โ€

The New York Times editorial board even spent an entire column lambasting Trump for questioning the legitimacy of U.S. elections:

It may be too late for the Republican Party to save itself from the rolling disaster of Donald Trump, but the partyโ€™s top leaders still have the duty to speak out and help save the country from his reckless rhetoric. The most frightening example is Mr. Trumpโ€™s frenzied claim that the presidential election is being โ€œriggedโ€ against him โ€” a claim he has ramped up as his chances of winning the presidency have gone down.

Instead of disavowing this absurdity outright, Republican leaders sit by in spineless silence. Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority leader, and Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, are the two most powerful Republicans in the country and should be willing to put the national interest above their own. Both know full well that there is no โ€œrigging,โ€ and yet between them they have managed one tepid response to Mr. Trumpโ€™s outrageous accusations: โ€œOur democracy relies on confidence in election results,โ€ Mr. Ryanโ€™s spokeswoman said, โ€œand the speaker is fully confident the states will carry out this election with integrity.โ€

This is like standing back while an arsonist pours gasoline all over your house, then expressing confidence that the fire department will get there in time.

And then thereโ€™s Salon, which breathlessly claimed in October that โ€œDonald Trumpโ€™s โ€˜rigged electionโ€™ lie is working: 73 percent of GOP voters think election could be stolen.โ€

โ€œTrumpโ€™s dangerous rhetoric is taking his supporters into dangerous territory,โ€ Salonโ€™s Sophia Tesfaye wrote.

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Poll Results PDF: Rigged Election in 2016

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