Most voters ready to accept election results but doubt Trump will: Poll

Despite ongoing claims of voter fraud and ballot mismanagement from erstwhile President Donald Trump and his allies, 86% of registered voters successful a caller ABC News/Ipsos canvass opportunity they personally are prepared to judge nan result of nan 2024 statesmanlike election arsenic legitimate, sloppy of which campaigner wins.

Two-thirds, however, judge Trump is not prepared to judge nan result arsenic legitimate. Fewer than half arsenic many, 30%, opportunity nan aforesaid of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Prepared to Accept nan Election Outcome? Among registered voters

ABC News/Ipsos poll

The public's willingness to judge nan result is fundamentally unchanged since August and up from 79% successful October 2020. Seven successful 10 registered voters besides definitive assurance that votes will beryllium counted accurately, small changed since nan 2022 midterms.

At nan aforesaid time, concerns astir nan electoral process resonate pinch a number of voters -- peculiarly Trump's ain supporters. Thirty-one percent wide opportunity they are not truthful aliases not astatine each assured that votes will beryllium counted accurately, rising to 54% of those who support Trump successful nan election. Just 6% of Harris supporters deficiency assurance successful nan count.

See PDF for afloat results.

Nonetheless, moreover among Trump's supporters, 81% opportunity they are prepared to judge nan predetermination result arsenic legitimate. That rises to 92% of Harris supporters successful this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates pinch fieldwork by Ipsos.

Notably, 69% of those who deficiency assurance successful nan ballot count opportunity they are prepared to judge nan result anyway. It's similar, 70%, conscionable among Trump supporters who deficiency assurance successful nan count.

Signs nonstop voters to a ballot drop-off location successful Denver, Col., Oct. 25, 2024.

David Zalubowski/AP

As reported Friday, 33% of registered voters -- including 66% of Trump's supporters -- endorse Trump's mendacious claims that President Joe Biden did not legitimately triumph successful 2020. These views are highly related to assurance successful nan electoral count: 90% of voters who opportunity Biden legitimately won nan predetermination definitive assurance that votes will beryllium counted accurately this predetermination cycle, compared pinch 30% of voters who opportunity Biden did not legitimately win.

Still, majorities opportunity they'll judge this year's result sloppy of their position connected nan 2020 race. Among those who do not deliberation Biden legitimately won, 72% opportunity they are prepared to judge this year's outcome. It's 93% among those who opportunity Biden did legitimately win.

Trump has said he is consenting to judge nan result "if everything's honest," while simultaneously raising concerns astir nan electoral process. Harris' campaign, for her part, has said she'll preside complete nan predetermination certification arsenic vice president sloppy of who wins.

Harris supporters are particularly skeptical that Trump will judge nan result of nan predetermination arsenic legitimate; 94% judge he is not prepared to do so. By contrast, astir six successful 10 Trump supporters (59%) deliberation he will judge nan outcome; 36% deliberation not.

Conversely, astir each of Harris' supporters, 97%, deliberation she is prepared to judge nan result of nan election. Many less Trump supporters, 40%, opportunity nan aforesaid for her.

Partisanship

Willingness to judge nan result of nan predetermination crosses governmental statement affiliations, ranging from 91% of Democrats and 88% of independents to 81% of Republicans.

Views connected nan Electoral Process. Among registered voters

ABC News/Ipsos poll

While willingness to judge predetermination results is bipartisan, concerns astir nan electoral process are much divided. Ninety-three percent of Democrats are assured that nan votes successful nan statesmanlike predetermination will beryllium counted accurately, falling to 68% of independents and conscionable 51% of Republicans.

Acceptance of 2020 predetermination results besides alteration wide by partisanship. Sixty-five percent of Republicans opportunity Biden did not legitimately triumph nan election, compared pinch 29% of independents and conscionable 3% of Democrats.

Methodology

This ABC News/Ipsos canvass was conducted online via nan probability-based Ipsos KnowledgePanel® Oct. 18-22, 2024, successful English and Spanish, among a random nationalist sample of 2,808 adults, including 2,392 registered voters. Partisan divisions are 29%-29%-30%, Democrats-Republicans-independents, among each respondents, and 32%-32%-29% among registered voters. Results person a separator of sampling error of positive aliases minus 2 percent points, including nan creation effect, for nan afloat sample and registered voters alike. Sampling correction is not nan only root of differences successful polls.

The study was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, pinch sampling and information postulation by Ipsos. See specifications connected ABC News' study methodology here.