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Replication Data for: Trump and Trust: Examining the Relationship between Claims of Fraud and Citizen Attitudes

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Title Replication Data for: Trump and Trust: Examining the Relationship between Claims of Fraud and Citizen Attitudes
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TPGJGA
 
Creator Williamson, Ryan
Justwan, Florian
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Despite winning the presidency in 2016, Donald Trump alleged “millions of illegal votes” and other election fraud. He continued using this rhetoric throughout his tenure as president and ultimately suggested that if he did not win reelection in 2020 it would be because it was stolen from him somehow. Here, we explore how such allegations of fraud influence the public’s attitudes toward the conduct of elections, election outcomes, representation, and democracy as a whole through an original survey experiment. In doing so, we find that respondents expressed significantly and substantively more negative attitudes towards elections and democracy after being exposed to claims of fraud (even without evidence). Additionally, Republican identifiers were more likely to doubt that their vote was counted fairly than Democrats or Independents. These results bear important implications for our current understanding of politics in the United States.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Williamson, Ryan