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.

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    For Millennial’s it’s wild to have had our parents tell us “TV will rot your brain” and “don’t just trust anything you see online” to them now where cable news has turned their brains to goo and anything posted by some guy in a truck wearing sun glasses on Facebook Reels must be reality.

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    Yeah I’m telling you. There is an older crowd that it doesn’t matter what you say to them, they run on hate and they’ve been given a lot of fuel.

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    That’s because Repuglicans are self selecting. People need to stop seeing them as half of the population. They are not.

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    It’s really just insane many Republicans believe this lie still. Even if Trump goes to jail there will still be many Republicans thinking this

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    Republican voters are a different breed. Even with enough evidence to prove Russia was interfering with the 2016 election, Democrats still mostly accepted the win. With even less evidence of any fraud in the 2020 election, the majority of Republicans deny Biden’s legitimacy.

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        And lots of evidence of Republicans committing fraud in 2020, and still they lost.

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    Republicans are brainwashed reality deniers. GOP/Trump/Russia keeps them insulated from learning.

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      I’m not convinced the North ever won. It’s just been a long ceasefire.

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      One side are boomers who think they know everything but can’t tell a record from a CD…

      I think we will be fine when it happens

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      yes a civil war between diet nazis too cowardly or feeble to serve in the military vs people who want gun control. should be an interesting fight where no matter who wins, America loses.

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    It’s scary when there’s an entire echochamber yelling nonsense at the top of their lungs. How is America supposed to recover with this incessant Fox News and even worse OAN propaganda?

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      The obvious solution is to outlaw intentionally lying in the guise of a news show. Make FOX etc., have to broadcast a banner that says, “THIS IS NOT FACTUAL NEWS THIS IS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY,” as they have argued in court.

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        Fox would own the fuck out of that.

        The left makes us put this banner on here! We know you’re smart people that can make your own choices about what is and is not “entertainment”! Now, for something I don’t find at all entertaining, Biden once again oversteps his authority and …

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    Does anybody else hope (emphasis on hope lol) they’re just saying this out of spite? Perhaps they know he lost, and are just saying this because they know it will “piss off the libs?”

    Maybe it’s naive, but while I am pretty liberal a-lot of my family is (unfortunately) republican and they all admit Trump lost, fair and square. They also say they’re sick of him, wish he would drop out of the race, and allow another, younger republican to be nominated. They’ve also not been contacted by any of these pollsters.

    Admittedly, this is just my experience with a very narrow slice of republicans; outside my family, I don’t really interact with too many.

    Thoughts? Am I just fortunate to not have to interact with the Trump cult on a daily basis? Or is the US just screwed? lol

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        This, I think, is pretty true. But still, its incredibly foolish. They could not control Trump the first time, why on earth do they think they could control him the second time?

        Unless they are banking on him being locked up with the key being tossed, and using that to galvanize the base around a candidate they can better control? Either way though, peddling these types of lies is just so, so dangerous. They are more-or-less setting up a large chunk of the nation to believe that the democrats are stealing the election and going to install a communist dictatorship (lol) and the only way to “save the country” is to violently take it back.

        And if Trump actually does win again? Well, then the other half the country is correctly convinced their has been a criminal takeover of the nation’s executive branch. How does that end? What even happens if Trump is convicted after taking office?

        I wish more republicans would understand that supporting Trump is going to seriously weaken the US and create instability. Even if the democrats were “unfairly targeting him” (to be clear, I believe he is guilty) there is just no way he can unify the country and make it stronger. Half the country will hate his guts, and that alone should disqualify him.

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    Propaganda works on stupid people. There’s a whole lotta stupid in this country.

    How about we do something about the big propaganda networks and 24x7 “news” channels that are more interested in ratings and entertainment than simply reporting. No more talking heads.

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    While I still have some sympathy left for the few sane people in this once great nation, I’m at a point now where it is hard to really sympathize with you as a people. The political system is corrupted beyond recognition, toxicity and hate run rampant due to the allmighty “free speech” amendment and yet nobody seems to actually care if they are not personally affected in horrible ways.

    By now it’s really easy to say “you get the government that you deserve”. And yet I dont fully believe it or want to say it because that would express the same apathy that you folks display when it comes to being governed.

    So… maybe get your shit together collectively?!