A staggering 62 percent of Democrat voters say it’s “likely” that they would have “changed” their vote during the 2020 presidential election if they knew the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, a new poll has revealed.
The survey, by TIPP Insights, found that 67 percent of American voters overall believe that the FBI and the intelligence community (IC) “misled the public” by claiming that the “Laptop from Hell” was part of a “Russian disinformation” campaign.
While it’s no surprise that Republicans feel that the suppression of the story corrupted the vote, the shock is how many Democrats and independent voters feel the election may have been swayed.
According to the survey, 31 percent of Democrats say it’s “very likely” that they would have “changed” their vote if they knew about Hunter’s laptop.
An additional 31% of Democrats also said it’s “somewhat likely” that the information would have “changed” their vote.
The new poll follows revelations by new Twitter CEO Elon Musk that the company’s executives censored shocking details about Hunter Biden in the run-up to the 2020 election.
The “Twitter Files” are exposing the great lengths the firm’s execs went to in an effort to protect then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign while trying to silence the sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump.
The survey, conducted on 1,351 adults, focused on 501 respondents who now follow the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.
The poll found that nearly two-thirds believe the details about Hunter Biden’s chaotic lifestyle of drugs, prostitutes, and overseas business dealings are authentic.
That includes 81 percent of Republican voters and 48 percent of Democrats.
More than two-thirds of respondents also said that the FBI and the IC deliberately misled the public by urging Facebook and Twitter to stop such stories from spreading.
An even wider margin — more than three-quarters of respondents — said any collusion between senior Democrats, the FBI, intelligence chiefs, and the Biden campaign on suppressing the story would have denied voters access to critical information in the run-up to the election.
Another half of respondents said they would have voted differently had they known that the revelations about Hunter Biden’s laptop were authentic.
Interestingly, Republican and Democratic voters were more or less aligned on this question.
Finally, a wide margin of respondents — 71 percent — said a truthful interpretation of the Hunter Biden laptop issue could have swung the November 3 election, which saw Biden defeat incumbent Trump by 51.3-46.9 percent of the popular vote.
The polling data shows that Americans increasingly believe the Hunter Biden laptop revelations are authentic and that the FBI and Democrats tried to suppress information that was pertinent to voting in the divisive presidential contest.
TIPP Insights is a polling outfit that gets an A+ rating from FiveThirtyEight.
Its survey results of 1,351 adults focussed on the third who closely follow the Hunter Biden laptop saga.
The smaller sample size yields a higher-than-usual error margin of ± 4.5 percentage points.
The polling, carried out between December 7-9, came as Musk branded Twitter a “crime scene” and vowed to dig up all the firm’s “darkest secrets” over its suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story.
The tycoon is working with several journalists to publish files and messages from the social media company, now known as the “Twitter files.”
The files expose Twitter’s decision-making processes when it comes to censorship.
The latest Twitter Files released over the weekend revealed FBI agents pressured the social media company to censor conservative pundits who believe that the 2020 election was stolen.
That work has garnered the attention of House Republicans, who have invited Musk to testify for their investigations into the presdient’s son, Hunter Biden.
Hunter Biden faces allegations of illegal business dealing in China and Ukraine that could implicate his father, also known as “The Big Guy.”
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who is poised to lead the House Oversight Committee when Republicans take over the chamber, told the New York Post he has reached out to Musk personally.
Comer says there are “troubling questions” about the business dealings of Hunter and one of the president’s brothers, James Biden, that require deeper investigation.
Republican lawmakers and their staff have been analyzing messages and financial transactions found on a laptop that belonged to Hunter Biden for the past year.
They have discussed issuing congressional subpoenas to foreign entities that did business with him, and have hired James Mandolfo, a former federal prosecutor, to help the committee probe the claims.
Hunter Biden’s taxes and foreign business work are already under federal investigation, with a grand jury in Delaware hearing testimony in recent months.
While he never held a position on the presidential campaign or in the White House, his membership on the board of a Ukrainian energy company and his efforts to strike deals in China have long raised questions about whether he traded on his father’s public service.
President Biden claims he’s never spoken to his son about his foreign business.
The emails on Hunter’s laptop prove otherwise.
