During a CNN appearance Sunday, Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake tried to make two claims at the same time: that the results of the 2020 presidential election couldn’t be trusted and that her elevation of false claims about voter fraud weren’t damaging confidence in elections.
“If leaders like you and President Trump are saying that the election was stolen,” the network’s Dana Bash asked Lake, “aren’t you participating, contributing, even causing the idea of people thinking that the election is not safe and secure?”
No, the candidate replied, adding that “we are going to make sure our elections are safe and secure for Democrats, independents and Republicans alike.” In other words, she’s saying they aren’t safe and secure now — which is what Bash asked.
But there’s no real question that false claims about rampant voter fraud, like those Lake energetically propagates, are a central reason that Republican confidence in American democracy is sagging. New polling reinforces that idea. And, unlike other concerns about democracy, this particular concern is completely unmoored from reality.
On Wednesday morning, the Associated Press released the results of a poll conducted by its partner NORC. Among the questions asked was one in which respondents evaluated the state of American democracy.
Most Democrats said that the system is working at least somewhat well. Independents were about evenly split. Republicans, though, were much more likely to express skepticism...
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