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By Chris Kahn
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly 80% of Americans, including more than half of Republicans, recognize President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the Nov. 3 election after most of the media called the race for the Democrat based on his clues in criticism. battlefield states, according to a Reuters / Ipsos poll.
Biden, who needed 270 Electoral College votes to win, had 279 of those votes to 214 for Trump, with results in three states not yet complete, according to Edison Research. In the popular vote, Biden got 76.3 million, or 50.7% of the total, compared to 71.6 million, or 47.6%, for Trump.
The Reuters / Ipsos national opinion poll, which ran from Saturday afternoon to Tuesday, found that 79% of American adults believe that Biden won the White House. Another 13% said the election has not yet been decided, 3% said Trump won, and 5% said they don’t know.
The results were somewhat divided by party: About six in 10 Republicans and almost all Democrats said Biden won.
Edison Research, which conducts exit polls for Reuters and major media outlets, called the race for Biden on Saturday after he extended his lead over Trump in Pennsylvania and appeared to be on track to racking up 270 electoral votes.
Trump has yet to acknowledge the outcome of the race. He declared victory prematurely long before the votes were counted and has repeatedly complained without evidence that he is the victim of widespread electoral fraud.
His claims have been echoed by members of Trump’s cabinet. US Attorney General William Barr has authorized federal investigations into “substantial” allegations of voting irregularities, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday he anticipates “a smooth transition to a second Trump administration.”
The Reuters / Ipsos poll was part of a larger poll that ran from Friday to Tuesday and included responses before the presidential race was called.
It showed that 70% of Americans, including 83% of Democrats and 59% of Republicans, trust local election officials “to do their job honestly.”
The poll also found that 72% think the loser of the election should admit defeat, and 60% think there will be a peaceful transition of power when Trump’s term ends in January.
The Reuters / Ipsos survey was conducted online, in English, across the United States. It collected responses from 1,363 US adults in total, including 469 respondents who took the survey between Saturday afternoon and Tuesday. The survey has a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of 5 percentage points.
(Reporting by Chris Kahn, editing by Ross Colvin, Jonathan Oatis, and Cynthia Osterman)
