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US voters concerned about post-election violence and efforts to overturn the results: AP-NORC poll

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    10% Center

  • Reliability

    75% ReliableGood

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -49% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Trump and Harris have concentrated their campaign events and advertising in seven battleground states that represent just 18% of the country's population.
41% : About 8 in 10 Republicans said another term for Trump would strengthen democracy "a lot" or "somewhat," while a similar share of Democrats said the same of a Harris presidency.
33% : ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOWDemocrats and Republicans have widely divergent views on the matter: About two-thirds of Republican voters think Trump would concede, compared to only about 1 in 10 Democrats.
33% : One prospect she said frightens her is that if Trump wins, he likely will not have the guardrails in his new administration that were in place in the last one.
33% : Democrats and independents are much more likely than Republican voters to place "a great deal" or "quite a bit" of responsibility on Trump.
29% : Trump has continued to lie about fraud costing him reelection four years ago and is again forecasting that he can lose this time only if the election is rigged against him, a strategy he has deployed since his first run for office.
29% : But only about one-third of voters expect Trump to accept the results and concede if he loses.
28% : Overall, about half of voters believe Trump would weaken democracy in the U.S. "a lot" or "somewhat" if he wins, while about 4 in 10 said the same of Harris.
25% : "I thought after Jan. 6 of 2021, the GOP would have the sense to reject him as a candidate," Aostara Kaye, of Downey, California, said of Trump.
25% : Kaye, a retired health care system worker, called Trump an "existential threat to the Constitution."
25% : Debra Christensen, 54, a home health nurse and Democrat from Watertown, Wisconsin, is opposed to the Electoral College that could give Trump the White House even if he loses the popular vote for the third time.
9% : "Many voters think Trump won't concede if he losesTrump's wide-ranging attempts to reject the will of the voters and remain in power after his 2020 loss have led to concerns that he will again fail to concede should he lose to Vice President Kamala Harris.

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