Former GOP members of Congress are far more likely than Republican voters to view President Biden's victory in the 2020 election as legitimate, the events of January 6, 2021, as an insurrection, and former President Trump's false claims of widespread voter fraud as a threat to democracy, according to a University of Massachusetts Amherst survey released Tuesday.
The survey of 237 former members, about half of them Republicans, reveals a sharp disconnect between ex-GOP lawmakers and the people who put them into office on a number of key questions related to 2020:
According to Alex Theodoridis, the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate political science professor who conducted the survey, the findings reflect a "vicious cycle" in which Republican elites are too scared to tell the truth about the 2020 election, leaving GOP voters to become saturated by Trump's election lies.
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