There have been many allegations recently of partisan bias in the news media. I closely monitor the mainstream press, and I may have identified an egregious example. Several news outlets recently have claimed that results of surveys show that two-thirds of Republican voters — one-third of all voters — believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump.
They believe that an alliance of Democrats, independents, Republican secretaries of state and election officials, poll workers, Republican-appointed federal judges and Supreme Court justices, voting machine manufacturers, and the ghost of Hugo Chavez all conspired to transfer enough votes from Trump to Biden to give the latter a seven-million-vote margin of victory. This despite the fact that after 15 months not a shred of credible evidence has emerged to support that claim, while literally dozens of court decisions, recounts, audits, forensic audits and analyses by election supervisors all attest to the validity of the results.
So my question is this: is it true that two-thirds of Republicans believe the stolen election story, or is that fake news spread by liberal media to make Republicans look stupid and gullible?
— Terry Johnson
Anchorage
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