Forty percent of Americans think it is “somewhat” or “very” likely that Trump actually won the 2020 election, including 72 percent of Republicans. The Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll has long asked Americans about conspiracy theories, but none of those theories have been as accepted as the belief that there was a massive conspiracy involving Republican and Democratic elected officials to steal the 2020 US Presidential election. Perhaps more importantly, this isn’t just about some people being credulous: asking about the discredited belief that the 2020 election was stolen makes Republicans more likely to think that such wild ideas are actually true. According to the latest Fairleigh Dickinson University Poll, 22 percent of Americans say that Bigfoot is at least somewhat likely to be real, and 11 percent say that the Earth might be flat, but those figures are higher among those Americans who believe that the 2020 election was stolen. ![]() Many Americans believe that the Donald Trump really won the 2020 US Presidential election, and those same people are much more likely than other Americans to endorse other unsubstantiated beliefs, even ones as wild as the existence of Bigfoot, or that the Earth is flat.
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