The rantings of a president unable to accept defeat have gained traction, and are embraced by a majority Republican voters as fact
Americans’ confidence in their democracy has been eroded for years by a system that has, at various junctures, delivered victory to Republican presidents who lost the popular vote, permitted industrial-scale gerrymandering of electoral maps, and is built around a Congress rigged in favour of conservative states.
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