Jan Zilinsky, Jonathan Nagler and Joshua Tucker
January 19, 2020
It’s not uncommon for a defeated party to find a narrative to explain a loss, but what is unusual is for a candidate to claim they didn’t lose at all. Following the 2020 presidential election, CSMaP researchers fielded a study, which found that over 70 percent of Republicans agreed with former President Trump’s claim that he won more votes than President Biden. The researchers explain the study and the different predictors of belief.