Number of Voters Saying Biden’s Election ‘Illegitimate’ Jumps 20% in WaPo Poll

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Cue the hyperventilation in the WaPo newsroom.

Yes, The Washington Post is out with a new poll, and it isn’t good news — for the type of person who reads the Post, anyhow. You can probably guess by the headline, which sounds a clarion alarm to liberal Beltway lifers: “Republican loyalty to Trump, rioters climbs in 3 years after Jan. 6 attack.”

“Three years after the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans are more sympathetic to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and more likely to absolve Donald Trump of responsibility for the attack than they were in 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll,” the Post reported  Tuesday.

Yes, start clutching those pearls, WaPo addicts: Only 24 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of Trump voters think that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, constituted “an attack on democracy that should never be forgotten,” according to the poll.

Are those pearls clutched tightly, dear reader? Clutch them harder! Because — gasp! — the percentage of voters who feel that Biden’s election was “legitimate” is down significantly in 2023 compared to 2021.

The Post, working with the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement,  asked the 1,024 adults it polled between Dec. 14 and 18 this question: “Regardless of whom you supported in the 2020 election, do you think Joe Biden’s election as president was legitimate, or was he not legitimately elected?”

According to the poll numbers, only 62 percent of those polled in 2023 said Biden’s election was legitimate, versus 69 percent in 2021. Moreover, while only 29 percent said the election was illegitimate in 2021, 36 percent said it was illegitimate in 2023.

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