dc.contributor.author | Pennycook, Gordon | |
dc.contributor.author | Rand, David G | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-08T16:12:52Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-08T16:12:52Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144267 | |
dc.description.abstract | <jats:p>The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election saw an unprecedented number of false claims alleging election fraud and arguing that Donald Trump was the actual winner of the election. Here we report a sur-vey exploring belief in these false claims that was conducted three days after Biden was declared the winner. We find that a majority of Trump voters in our sample – particularly those who were more politically knowledgeable and more closely following election news – falsely believed that election fraud was widespread and that Trump won the election. Thus, false beliefs about the elec-tion are not merely a fringe phenomenon. We also find that Trump conceding or losing his legal challenges would likely lead a majority of Trump voters to accept Biden’s victory as legitimate, alt-hough 40% said they would continue to view Biden as illegitimate regardless. Finally, we found that levels of partisan spite and endorsement of violence were equivalent between Trump and Biden voters.</jats:p> | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics, and Public Policy | en_US |
dc.relation.isversionof | 10.37016/MR-2020-51 | en_US |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.source | Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review | en_US |
dc.title | Research note: Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Pennycook, Gordon and Rand, David G. 2021. "Research note: Examining false beliefs about voter fraud in the wake of the 2020 Presidential Election." Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. | |
dc.contributor.department | Sloan School of Management | |
dc.relation.journal | Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review | en_US |
dc.eprint.version | Final published version | en_US |
dc.type.uri | http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle | en_US |
eprint.status | http://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerReviewed | en_US |
dc.date.updated | 2022-08-08T16:01:49Z | |
dspace.orderedauthors | Pennycook, G; Rand, DG | en_US |
dspace.date.submission | 2022-08-08T16:01:50Z | |
mit.license | PUBLISHER_CC | |
mit.metadata.status | Authority Work and Publication Information Needed | en_US |