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By Chris Kahn
(Reuters) – A bipartisan majority of Americans do not accept President Donald Trump’s declaration of premature victory in the US presidential election and a majority are willing to wait for all votes to be counted before deciding who won, according to a poll Reuters / Ipsos opinion report released Thursday. .
The Nov. 4-5 poll also showed that the public has largely ignored Trump’s assessment of the election result as rigged to deny him a second term.
The Republican President follows Democrat Joe Biden in Arizona and Nevada and has seen his advantages in Pennsylvania and Georgia shrink by the hour as those states count mail-in ballots. As his path to victory narrowed this week, Trump complained without evidence that he is the victim of widespread electoral fraud.
Trump claimed he should be ahead in most states that are still counting ballots and declared victory prematurely in a rambling speech early in the morning that misinterpreted vote counts across the country.
Few Americans agree with the president’s opinion on the race, according to the poll: 16% of American adults, including 7% of Democrats and 30% of Republicans, accept Trump’s declaration of victory.
Another 84%, including 93% of Democrats and 70% of Republicans, said that “candidates should not declare victory until all votes have been counted.”
Two-thirds of Americans say they trust their local election officials to do their job honestly, and 83% agreed that “our democracy can bear waiting until all the votes are counted to find out who won the election.”
The Reuters / Ipsos survey was conducted online, in English, across the United States. It collected opinions from 1,115 American adults, including 524 Democrats and 417 Republicans, and has a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of about 6 percentage points.
(Reporting by Chris Kahn; Editing by Aurora Ellis)
