The Monmouth poll found that a majority - 53 percent of Americans - support an independent commission to look into the Capitol breach. Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file A young boy holds onto a fence as pro-Trump supporters rally to defy the election results hours after Biden was named President-elect, outside the Maricopa County elections building on Nov. That belief was also echoed by rioters who breached the Capitol on January 6 in the effort to stop the election results from being certified. But former President Donald Trump spent months spreading baseless allegations of widespread fraud nonetheless. The belief in widespread fraud among Republicans persists despite a multitude of probes, intelligence assessments and court rulings that have found no evidence that either domestic fraud nor foreign interference affected the election results.

What’s more, 29 percent of Republicans say they will never accept Biden as president. The survey, conducted February 25 – March 1, found that 65 percent of Republicans believe that Biden’s win was solely the result of voter fraud. Almost two-thirds of Republicans believe that President Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election, even as more than six-in-ten Americans overall believe he won fair and square, according to a new Monmouth University poll.

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