The share of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who believe that President Joe Biden’s 2020 election win was not legitimate has ticked back up, according to a new CNN poll fielded throughout July. All told, 69% of Republicans and Republican-leaners say Biden’s win was not legitimate, up from 63% earlier this year and through last fall, even as there is no evidence of election fraud that would have altered the outcome of the contest.

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    Maybe the mid west republicans are just 100% trumpers? It’s wild.

    MAGA is basically like a religion out here. They avoid any information that contradicts their belief system and gravitate towards media that reaffirms it. The constant drumbeat of whataboutism coming from trump, fox news, AM radio, etc really has poisoned their brains. Support of trump, embrace of his lies, and hatred of his “enemies”, has become their entire identity.

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      Back when Trump was President, a friend of mine (who’s a Trump supporter) was arguing with me about whether or not Trump said something.

      I did what I always did and checked Google. I quickly found a video of Trump saying the thing and sent it to my friend. He replied that it was fake news.

      My friend wasn’t claiming that the video was actually faked or taken out of context. Instead, he was saying that it was fake news because it was hosted on CNN’s servers. He didn’t care what the content was, just whether it was on a right wing outlet’s server or not.

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      They avoid any information that contradicts their belief system and gravitate towards media that reaffirms it.

      Isn’t that the same with twitter, reddit, CNN MSNBC? It’s a more broad media problem. When was the last time most people watched or read any media that directly conflicted with their beliefs?