A new AP-NORC survey finds that just 20 percent of Republican voters have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence, 22 percent have a “moderate amount,” and 58 percent have “only a little or none at all” confidence that the Democratic Party’s 2024 primary votes will be counted correctly.
This is in contrast with 46 percent of Democratic voters having “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence, 24 percent having a “moderate mount,” and 29 percent having “only a little or none at all” confidence that the Republican Party’s 2024 primary votes will be counted correctly.
All of this makes for a neat quantification of the “DeAn pHiLL1pS iS GeTTiNg sCReWeD By tEh B1deN cR1mE fAm1Ly!!!11!!” bullshit already getting fired up in MAGA world. To be fair though, it’s not like Republican voters are that much more confident in their own party’s primary process, as just 37 percent say they have “a great deal” or “quite a bit” of confidence in it, and 31 percent say a “moderate” amount, leaving nearly a third thinking the GOP’s 2024 race is rigged. Meanwhile 72 percent of Dem voters have high confidence, 19 percent a moderate amount, and only 8 percent have low or no confidence that votes will be counted accurately in the 2024 Dem primary.
Without printing or linking to the crosstabs of the general election findings the AP writes “About one-quarter of Republicans say they have at least ‘quite a bit’ of confidence that the votes in the 2024 presidential election will be counted accurately, significantly lower than Democrats.”