Washington, D.C. – The 2020 election was perhaps one of the most contentious and chaotic in U.S. history. When it was over, the cultural elites expressed relief the voters had chosen to deny President Donald J. Trump a second term.
The race was not close. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s 8 million-plus majority in the popular vote is enough to convince all but the most diehard Trump supporters that the election results reflect the will of the people. Some, especially those who continue to claim the results were tainted by fraud point to the fact a shift of fewer than 50,000 votes spread out among several states would have given Trump a majority in the electoral college which, as political science professors are quick to remind skeptics, is the only majority that counts.
The folks who continue to try and relitigate the outcome of the last election are missing the speed with which the current president is losing support. A poll released Tuesday by Scott Rasmussen found half of all registered voters believe the nation would be better off today had the now-former president been re-elected.
The Rasmussen poll had 50 percent of the more than 1,000 registered voters surveyed saying things “would be better today” if Trump had beaten Biden – including 34 percent who said things would be “much better.” Just 39 percent of those participating in the survey said things would be worse while just about one in ten said they would be the same no matter who won.
These numbers may seem shocking given the mostly favorable coverage Biden has received since his inauguration but, say some Washington veterans, the political operation inside the White House and the Democratic National Committee should have seen it coming. In recent weeks the president has stumbled from failure to failure, projecting an image of incompetence that contrasts sharply with the image of a commanding leader he projected during the 2020 campaign.
Biden came into office projecting national unity as a way of contrasting him with what some said were the divisions of the Trump years. His initial approval numbers, which hovered around 60 percent, have dropped off sharply in recent weeks beginning with the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. troops of Afghanistan that many say the administration badly mismanaged.
In his analysis of the numbers, pollster Rasmussen suggests another reason may be at the heart of the decline Faced with rising numbers of COVID infections even after the introduction of vaccines produced in record time because Trump cut federal red tape, Biden has proposed mandated vaccinations for federal workers and others that, while “moderately popular overall,” are viewed skeptically by Black voters and Hispanics.
Rasmussen’s data found that “26 percent of Black Democrats believe individuals should decide for themselves whether to get vaccinated” while “60 percent of Hispanic voters have a close friend or relative who will get vaccinated against their will because they can’t afford to lose their job.”
These numbers are largely on par with those who said things in the U.S. today would be better if Trump had won.
“Overall, a plurality of voters would prefer a candidate who supports Trump-like policies,” the Rasmussen poll said, identifying the potential political danger to supposedly moderate Democrats like Biden who, after winning office in 2020 only by gaining the backing of disaffected Republicans and self-described independents have joined with party progressives in the lurch toward policies that can best be described as big government socialism.
The survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted using a mixed-mode approach from September 16-18, 2021. Most respondents were contacted online or via text while 263 were contacted using automated phone polling techniques. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.8 percent.
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Peter Roff
Peter Roff is affiliated with several Washington, D.C. public policy organizations and is a former U.S. News and World Report contributing editor who appears regularly as a commentator on the One America News network. He can be reached by email at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @PeterRoff.
President Trump won biden and the Democrats cheated
And Regardless___ they SURE are losing Now!
News Flash: We are all losing now!
AREN’T we though! The Democrat Party simply MUST be basically EXTERMINATED!
We have a damned fool trying to get us into communism
“Any country is ultimately responsible for who they allow to lead them”
We’ve got a LOT bigger problem than This warped old worn out, tottering, lifelong scumbag CROOK in the White House.
HE won’t be here long…. but the evil seeds of Socialism that have firmly taken root here WILL BE.
Yes, Trump Did Win the legitimate votes easily!
82 million votes for Biden. If it seems unbelievable, well……..you reap what you sow.
THAT makes as much sense as a fart in a hurricane. WHAT are Trying to SAY?
WELL surprise surprise some one finally got a brain any idiot should have known that
The election was rigged. To those who say prove it, I say prove it wasn’t. I might also add. if the election was not rigged, then why are Democrats fighting all efforts for investigations and forensic recounts? Democrats are corrupt down to their very core. Period!!
Trump had won, no question. Election was stolen.
Half? LEFTIST BULL SHIT. 120 MILLION OF VOTED FOR TRUMP. WE WANT BLOOD FOR THE ELECTION FRAUD. DIMINISHED OUR VOTE TO NOTHING. ALL FRAUD PARTICIPANTS MUST BE REDUCED TO SAME!
Peter, that 8 million votes, when you look at when these votes actually counted, i.e.; when these votes came into effect, so late in the election, combined with many other factors (claims that voting machines are connected to the internet, well communicating with anything, whit number of votes greater then voters, big contributors to the dems (you knw those super rich that are actually running the country) owning these voting machines and the media, again we can go on and on with this) and the kicked the deems, who even disregarded lawful orders to obstruct any true investigations into these voting results, doesn’t suggest anything? Just another media person with little ability to actiually think but great follower and don’t want to upset your other media personnel, hell you want to make the big times right?
Here is the point, there was fraud in this last election, big time. The media has done everything in their paid off means to cover it up. It is obvious that everyone was against trump from the beginning. In fact the beginning the republican rank and file should have seen who to vote out of the rep leadership positions.
Now here is the kicker… both of these parties have been on this road to taking America down. The dems have been kings of disregarding law to do what they want…andnthe rps have done nothing to stop them… the American people are the losing ones but… the American people are to blame for not paying attention, to self absorbed, what ever , to hold these politicians accountable.
Well we’d Better ALL be Reeeeeal “tuned in” to EVERYTHING from here on! The very FIRST thing that we MUST DO as “we the people” is flat out, Unequivocally DEMAND Term Limits!!! And NOT VERY LONG Terms! What is going on is Totally PREPOSTEROUS!!! NO MORE CAREER POLITICIANS, PERIOD!!!
Pathetic Pelosi proves we desperately need term limits! Career politicians must go.
First of all the race was never close. The Democratic Party fixed the election. This is all coming out. So Biden is not our President, The military is going to bring back President Trump. President Trump is the rightful President of the USA. Haters will hate. We all know it is true! Go ahead be as nasty as you feel you need to be. God is my savior. God Bless America and the world.
LISTEN UP….I Still STAND By What GOD Says….PREZ TRUMP Did NOT Get a FAIR ELECTION. TRUMP Shall Bec o me a TRUMPET. HE is GOD’S K ING DAVID. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
I would say more than half would think Trump is far better. Biden has not done one thing to make our country better or safer! Anyone that thinks so doesn’t understand at all what he is doing to our country. Includes more division in the people!!
IF Trump had been declared the winner the problems would have developed in another direction!! More people would have likely died by COVID, Russia/China would have likely had a freer hand to do as they chose, the economy would likely have a more seasoned/experienced person in the WH.
What are you saying ???? How could china and russia(especially china) have any freer hand than they do under the illegitimate clown in out WH now. More than half of the people in OUR congress/administration have vested interests in china INCLUDING this illegitimate so-called president. I seriously doubt any more would have died from this intentionally released virus because Trump was aware of what was happening before anyone else would admit it. I am confused by your post — our BOOMING economy under President Trump was the reason for the intentional release of the virus by chinese communist regime and the some members of the democrat party.
Half –are you kidding me ????? If 90% of American voters don’t think President Trump would be doing a better job — they deserve what’s happening and going to happen to them — you know like being led into communism/socialism, Americans being imprisoned without due process, being flooded with illegal criminals just to get the democrap vote, an extremely corrupt administration and congress, illegal mandates from lunatics. If this poll is anywhere near accurate(don’t trust polls) half the Americans deserve what’s going to happen and the other half better learn to fight for their lives.
do the math 477 counties did NOT have 81 Million voters dead and alive!
Trump won and the judiciary failed to do their job because they are weak!
This makes me happy that those idiots who voted for Biden feel bad about the election. I hope by the time the full 4 years are gone, the elites and all the rest a dead broke and out of gas, electricity, food and beer.
There are more half, you just can’t get them all to vote .
IF Trump had won? Really? He did win. We just have a problem in that we are letting an oligarchy of Deep State operatives rule over us, and we just sit and lamely hope that things will be better with the next election, as if we any longer elect our “leaders”. Not a single directive from usurper Biden & Co. should be followed by ANYONE, but you have so many that just say, like so many Nazi criminals, “I’m just doing my job. I’m just following orders. I’m just doing what they pay me to do.” Our nation is full of passive, cowardly, treasonous prostitutes, mindlessly following those intentional and evil criminals who have stolen our government.
God is in control of this entire situation. Don’t forget that!
Pres. Trump did win and most every one who has a brain know Pres. Trump won… Those who have lied, cheated and stole this election will pay dearly, wheither in this world or the next. Nothing that has ever been said or done is hidden from God, He even knows our deepest and darkest secrets…
The fool says, “There is no God.” But the biggest fool is he who refuses to seek the existence of God.
When Don Trump was President he carried out the duties of the office better than any president since the years of Eisenhower, Truman, and Kennedy and had an understanding of trade and business lacking in the Donkeyside leaders of the last seventy six years. Perhaps his leadership will overcome the lies of fake news and the rantings of the hee haws in the House and Senate. “You cannot fool all the people all the time” but I am admonished by the mob leader Caproni who said “Vote early and Often” and the scenes of Altman’s Kansas City where the Donkeycratic Club got out the vote with twenty or thirty men on a flatbed Diamond T truck going from precinct to precinct and voting the “raise the dead vote”.
President Trump did win. The election was stolen with outrageous unconstitutional laws effected at the last minute, stuffing ballot boxes with illegal and deceased voters, unlawful voting machines, and dishonest vote counters.