Why Do So Many Americans Believe Trump’s Lies?

Brett Pelham
An Injustice!
Published in
8 min readDec 18, 2020

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Even after the U.S. electoral college made it official that Joe Biden is the President-elect, many Americans continue to believe that Democrats stole the election. According to an early December, 2020, Rasmussen poll of 1,000 likely U.S. voters, 47% of Americans believe that it is at least “somewhat likely” that “Democrats stole votes or destroyed pro-Trump ballots in several states to ensure that Joe Biden…

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Brett is a social psychologist at Montgomery College, MD. Brett studies health, gender, culture, religion, identity, and stereotypes.