American democracy has overcome big stress tests since the 2020 election. More challenges are ahead

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump is running for the White House again and has been dominating the Republican primary as the first votes approach.
52% : Then there's the view of Trump backers.
48% : On Thursday, Maine's Democratic secretary of state struck Trump from that state's primary ballot, becoming the first election official to take such action.
46% : Some Republicans did try to aid Trump.
41% : It seems unlikely, though, that Trump could return to the White House if he loses the election.
38% : When Trump began to falsely claim he had won the 2020 election and urged Republicans to overrule their states' voters and send his electors to Congress, every GOP official with the power to do that refused.
33% : Scott Gessler, a former Colorado secretary of state, was arguing against attempts by a liberal group to boot Trump from the ballot.
32% : Trump has used increasingly authoritarian rhetoric as he campaigns for the GOP nomination.
32% : In Congress, lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill closing some of the loopholes in the counting of Electoral College votes that Trump tried to exploit to stay in office, making it harder to challenge state certifications on the House floor.
27% : Trump lost all but one of more than 60 lawsuits he and his allies filed in states to overturn the election, sometimes before judges he had appointed.
24% : The upshot is it will be far harder for Trump to try to overturn a loss in 2024 than in 2020.
23% : Trump says the criminal cases and separate attempts to bar him from the ballot under the insurrection clause of the Constitution are a form of election interference.
15% : It's gotten to the point that Trump was recently asked by conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt whether he planned to be a dictator: "Not at all," Trump responded.
9% : While campaigning, Trump has adopted an "I'm rubber and you're glue" approach, accusing Biden of being the actual threat to democracy.

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