YouGov poll: ‘Snowflake’ Trump voters say they will refuse the 2020 results if Biden wins.

Josef Hollywood
3 min readAug 1, 2020

Most Americans now believe that President Trump will not accept the results of November’s election if he loses to Joe Biden, according to a new Yahoo! and YouGov poll — and an even larger majority of Trump voters say they too will refuse to accept a narrow loss if mail-in ballots contribute to Biden’s victory.

In the midst of a pandemic that has seen many states expand their mail-in balloting systems to limit dangerous crowding on Election Day, the issue of postal voting took centre stage on Thursday when Trump escalated his months-long campaign to delegitimize the practice and possibly the election itself.

“2020 will be the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” the president tweeted, even though there is no evidence that mail-in voting would lead to widespread voter fraud and several states already conduct elections entirely by mail.

The results of the latest survey suggest that Trump’s efforts to sow doubt about the validity of mail-in voting may be starting to have…

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Josef Hollywood

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