69% of Republicans now believe Biden’s 2020 victory was illegal: A new poll released before Trump’s impeachment on Jan. 6 shows GOP supporters believe there was widespread fraud

Polls continue to show that former President Donald Trump convinced a large portion of Republican voters that President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory was illegitimate.

That’s according to a CNN poll released Thursday found that 69 percent of Republicans and Republican voters still believe Biden’s victory was not legitimate — up from 63 percent earlier this year.

Among registered voters who voted for Trump in 2020, the numbers were even higher — 75 percent doubted the last election had been run correctly.

The ex-president will be indicted for a third time in Washington, D.C., on Thursday over his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the January 6 riot at the Capitol.

Overall, pollsters found that 38 percent of Americans currently believe the so-called “big lie,” while 61 percent say Biden rightly won the 2020 race.

Supporters of former President Donald Trump ride in a replica of the presidential limousine, The Beast, outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, D.C., where Trump will be arraigned for a third time Thursday. Poll shows 69 percent of Republicans still believe the “big lie.”

Of the 69 percent of Republican voters who expressed skepticism about the 2020 election, 39 percent said they believed there was solid evidence that it was illegitimate.

The other 30 percent simply said they suspected something was wrong.

Another 29 percent of GOP-leaning voters believed Biden’s victory was legitimate.

Special Counsel Jack Smith explained how many people in Trump’s circle told the president there was no evidence of widespread electoral fraud — including from the top Justice Department and the Director of National Intelligence.

Federal prosecutors will have to show that Trump knew he was lying about election fraud to prove their case.

Immediately after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, 54 percent of Republican voters said they believed there was evidence that Trump’s election had been stolen — the lie the ex-president told his supporters.

Supporters of current former President Donald Trump demonstrate outside the Capitol on January 6, a demonstration that turned into a violent riot. Trump will appear in court Thursday over his role in the attack

Looking ahead, voters who chose Biden in 2020 were more likely to say they would only support candidates who did not support the “big lie.”

Forty-eight percent of Biden voters considered this an essential shared opinion.

Only 20 percent of Trump supporters said they would only support a candidate who shared their views on whether the 2020 election was rigged.

Trump’s 2024 Republican rivals tend to have it both ways — they’ve expressed skepticism about how the 2020 election turned out, but won’t say they believe Trump was the legitimate winner.

The new polls showed widespread concern about the US election.

Fifty percent of Americans said they thought it was at least somewhat likely that elected officials could successfully reverse the results of an election if their party did not win.

The indictment against Trump contained a plan the ex-president pursued, including pressuring election officials, posting false slates of Electoral College voters, and urging Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election during the joint election. session of Congress on January 6, 2021.

A majority – 58 percent – say they have little or no confidence that the elections reflect the will of voters.

Another 42 percent said they have at least some confidence that the elections will be conducted properly.

Only 13 percent of those surveyed said they are “very confident” in the US election — the lowest percentage recorded in CNN polls since 2021.