How the Election Deniers Are Faring

William Saletan: “Let’s start with the good news: Most voters in these states don’t think the 2020 election was stolen. Two months ago in Pennsylvania, 49% of registered voters said ‘election officials in Pennsylvania correctly counted the state’s vote in the 2020 Presidential election’; 41% said they didn’t. In Arizona, 53% of voters said they were extremely or very confident that ‘the votes in Arizona were cast legitimately and counted accurately’; only 28% said they weren’t confident at all. Last month in Michigan, 54% of likely voters said ‘Joe Biden won the election fair and square’; only 35% chose the alternative answer, ‘Joe Biden and Democrats stole the election from Donald Trump.’ And in Wisconsin, 61% of voters said Biden was ‘the legitimate winner’; only 26% said Trump was the legitimate winner.”

“The bad news is that candidates who peddle the stolen-election myth are polling well above those numbers.”