Written by John Acord

On January 3rd, 2024

Undoubtedly, The Washington Post has launched a current study, and the findings are not favorable – specifically for people who usually consume news from the Post. One can quickly expect the material of the article based on its headline, which serves as a distress signal to devoted liberal people living in the Beltway: “Support for Trump and the rioters among Republicans increases 3 years after the January 6th incident.

“Three years after the Jan. 6 attack, Republicans are more supportive to those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and more likely to absolve Donald Trump of responsibility for the attack than they remained in 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll,” the Post reported Tuesday.

Yes, begin clutching those pearls, WaPo addicts: Only 24 percent of Republicans and 17 percent of Trump citizens think that the events of Jan. 6, 2021, constituted “an attack on democracy that must never ever be forgotten,” according to the survey.

Do you have a company grip on those pearls, my well-regarded reader? Hold onto them even tighter! Why, you may ask? Well, brace yourself for a shock! The proportion of voters who view Biden’s election as “valid” has actually experienced a substantial decrease in 2023 when compared to 2021.

The Post, dealing with the University of Maryland’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement, asked the 1,024 adults it polled in between Dec. 14 and 18 this question: “Regardless of whom you supported in the 2020 election, do you believe Joe Biden’s election as president was genuine, or was he not legitimately chosen?

According to the survey numbers, only 62 percent of those surveyed in 2023 said Biden’s election was legitimate, versus 69 percent in 2021. Furthermore, while only 29 percent stated the election was illegitimate in 2021, 36 percent said it was invalid in 2023.

That 7 portion point distinction suggests roughly 20 percent more respondents in 2023 stated the election was illegitimate when compared to 2021.

In addition, there was a reduction in the percentages of people who believed that Biden’s election stood across all groups: Republicans (from 39 percent to 31 percent), independents (from 72 percent to 66 percent), and Democrats (94 percent to 91 percent).

According to the short article from The Post, a variety of citizens who were interviewed claimed to have actually experienced voter scams. They particularly mentioned the extensively discredited claims that Georgia election workers were caught on video inserting counterfeit tallies into the vote count. Just recently, the two ladies featured because video effectively took legal action against previous Trump legal representative Rudy Giuliani and were granted $148 million for his function in spreading out these false claims, as reported by The Post.

Indeed, Rudy Giuliani has the potential to resonate with a large range of voters, consisting of both independents and Democrats, in the 2020 election.

The Washington Post stopped working to provide concrete data on the number of voters who shared these concerns before utilizing them as reasons for the modification in the survey. Rather, they merely stated that “several” individuals had echoed these claims, which is barely a rewarding description. It seems that the Post is up to its old techniques once again.

For that reason, if this person was not Rudy Giuliani and his ridiculous “claims that have been proven false long ago,” what else could be the reason for the modification in the method individuals see things in this scenario?

It’s not simply the bedrock concept that time heals all wounds. If that held true in these outcomes, there wouldn’t be an across-the-board decline in those who stated Joe Biden was legally chosen in the exact same survey that provided ample proof of Democrat citizens still waving the bloody shirt of Jan. 6 with Republicans less likely to call it a danger to our democracy.

Rather, if one wishes to search for a factor to question the “authenticity” of Biden’s election, maybe we shouldn’t start with claims of Georgia ballot-stuffing or Venezuelan backdoors into election software.

Possibly we need to start by going over, um, Twitter’s actions of censoring the information about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which occurred right after the FBI confirmed the authenticity of its contents. Such habits could potentially undermine the reliability of the election.

The mainstream media tends to dismiss queries concerning previous Vice President Joe Biden’s possible knowledge of his kid’s global company endeavors as if they were unwarranted conspiracy theories. This in spite of Biden’s explicit rejection of any involvement.

It’s possible that the mainstream media’s unwillingness to address Joe Biden’s visible cognitive problems added to the situation.

Simply put, the outcomes may just be revealing more Americans are realizing how much the powers of social networks and the establishment media played a role in putting Biden in the White House– and how dishonest major gamers in those industries were with American voters.

Relating to the shift in point of views on January 6th, recent videos have actually supplied proof that the majority of individuals present inside the Capitol throughout the intrusion were not the commonly illustrated shirtless, horn-wearing “insurrectionists.” Instead, they were, at most, people looking for chaos and excitement, who eventually made a severe mistake. It ends up being challenging to sustain a strong sense of indignation towards the events of that day when one acknowledges that much of it was a consequence of a series of unrelated choices, instead of a deliberate, orchestrated coup.

Or, possibly it’s simply another piece of bad polling for a president who keeps plumbing the depths in both approval rankings and re-election opportunities. It’s safe to say that, after taking a look at survey after study that reveals Biden with dismal numbers, the Post might conclude this was absolutely nothing more than “Biden fatigue.” Americans have actually certainly had enough of it.

Sadly, The Post’s report turn to recycling discredited claims, as revealed by several people who were consulted. The newspaper’s presentation of the realities is doubtful, and it expects us to accept its analysis without hesitation, in addition to share its indignation.

That may work for the Post’s dedicated readers– the type of inside-the-Beltway and rural D.C. federal staff members who enjoy absolutely nothing better than to be assured by their hometown newspaper that they’re remarkable to their fellow citizens in the real life.

But for the remainder of the country, the takeaway is different: The bad ballot news for Biden only gets worse, and the 2024 election is coming better by the day.