A new poll has found that a majority of Americans think the results of the upcoming election will be hotly contested by at least one of the major candidates.
The poll from ABC News/Ipsos sought to examine how voters thought Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump would accept the upcoming election.
For Harris, 68% said they felt the Democratic nominee was prepared to accept the results of the election, while 29% said she was unprepared.
For the Republican nominee, voters seemed to split the other way, with 67% reporting that they feel Trump is not prepared to accept the upcoming election’s results, while 29% think he is prepared.
The poll comes after four years of doubt was cast on the 2020 election and its results by former President Trump, who continues to maintain that fraud resulted in the election being “stolen.”
While many feared that Trump’s rhetoric would impact how voters viewed the election, the poll found that 81% said they were ready to accept the outcome of the election, while 17% said they were not.
However, about one-third of voters did share that they lack confidence that votes in this election will be counted accurately. Still, 65% were very or somewhat confident that ballots would be counted correctly.
There was also a correlation between those who didn’t think votes would be counted correctly and those who reported being unprepared to accept the election results.
Those who labeled themselves to the pollsters as very conservative were also less likely to say they would accept the outcome of the election compared to their political counterparts.
The survey was conducted from Aug. 23-27 and included responses from 2,496 adults. There is a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.