Just Over Half of Harris Voters Accept Trump as ‘Legitimate President’ in Post-2024 ‘Election Trust’ Poll

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A post-election survey released late Friday after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris found three-quarters of voters will accept him as the “legitimate president.”

An Economist/YouGov poll spoke to 1,590 registered voters after the election about a number of topics, including whether they placed trust in the way the election was carried out.

A vast majority of those who voted for Trump – 97% – felt the results of the election were trustworthy. Meanwhile, 53% of Harris’s voters who answered the survey said they would consider Trump “legitimate.” The poll noted:

75% of registered voters — including 53% of Harris voters and 97% of Trump voters — say they accept that Trump is the legitimate president

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Before the election, many Trump supporters expressed skepticism that the election would be fair or that their own vote would be accurately counted; now, more than two-thirds of Trump voters and Harris voters have a great deal or quite a bit of confidence that their vote was counted accurately and about two-thirds say that the election was conducted fairly.

Nine percent of the poll’s respondents said they believed the 2024 election results were impacted by voter fraud.

Election integrity has been a hot issue since Trump cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election before a single vote had been cast. He would go on to falsely claim the election was stolen from him.

As CNN noted last August, almost 70% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they did not believe the 2020 election was free and fair. CNN reported:

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.

Friday’s Economist/YouGov poll was conducted from Nov. 6 to Nov. 7 and reproted a margin of error at +/- three percentage points.