NASHVILLE – A new poll finds that a slim majority of Tennessee voters – 45.7% to 43.6% – think Democrat Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election over then-President Donald Trump despite the results having been certified in Tennessee and across the U.S.
The survey of 1,125 registered voters, conducted April 8-11 by Embold Research on behalf of the Tennessee Democracy Forum, also asked voters whether they believe the events of Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol were a legitimate form of political discourse or an insurrection.
Fifty-one percent said they thought Jan. 6 was a legitimate form of discourse while 49% said they saw it as an insurrection. The survey had a margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.2 percentage points.
Results of the poll will be a topic of discussion in a virtual online forum in the Tennessee Democracy Forum’s first Conversation on Democracy, which will feature former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who backed Biden in 2020, and former U.S. Ambassador Norm Eisen, a Democrat who are co-chairs of the States United Democracy Center at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 26, at 7 p.m.