Articles By
Catie Snow Bailard
Fact-checking Trump’s election lies can improve confidence in U.S. elections: Experimental evidence
Catie Snow Bailard, Ethan Porter and Kimberly Gross
As the 2020 campaign unfolded, with a mix of extraordinary embellishments and outright falsehoods, President Trump’s attacks on the integrity of the U.S. electoral system grew louder and more frequent. Trump-aligned Republican candidates have since advanced similar false claims in their own campaigns in the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections.