Republicans more concerned with 'rampant fraud' in minority areas than white ones: Poll

New polling released by CBS News suggests that nearly half of Republicans believe “widespread” illegal voting will occur in November – and almost all in that group claimed “rampant fraud” would occur in “racial minority communities.”

The findings were highlighted in a Washington Post column, and presented “a remarkable demonstration of the divide between Democrats and Republicans on basic matters of fact and on the reliability of different sources of information,” writes columnist Philip Bump.

He noted that respondents were presented with several politicians for the poll, conducted for CBS News by YouGov, along with groups that provide the public with data and opinions.

“On net, the group that was most trusted were the respondents’ friends and family, who were much more likely to be seen as telling the truth than lying. They were followed by medical scientists — but here there was a wide partisan divide. Democrats were much more likely to say that scientists told the truth; Republicans were more divided,” Bump wrote about the poll.

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He continued: “It is objectively the case that Kamala Harris says untrue things less often than does Donald Trump. But, then, it is also the case that government economic reports are true, but Republicans — broadly skeptical of non-Trump authority — are more likely to say that those reports are lies than they are to say that they are true.”

As far as the voting fraud portion of the poll, Bump said that while “there is no evidence at all that significant fraud occurred in 2020, despite four years of Trump and his allies desperately trying to uncover any,” the polling data still showed “nearly half of Republicans think widespread fraud will occur heavily in areas with Black and Hispanic communities.”

“It’s not hard to read between the lines here,” he writes, adding that “less than half thought it would occur in ‘mostly White communities.’”