Washington, May 23 (RHC)-- A new poll shows that 53 percent of Republican Party voters say Donald Trump is currently the "true president" of the United States, not Joe Biden.  According to a recent Ipsos/Reuters poll of over 2,000 US adults, 56 percent of Republicans still believe the November presidential election was "rigged or the result of illegal voting."

The poll also shows that 87 percent of Republicans think it is important for the government to place new limits on voting to protect future elections from fraud.  Fifty-four said they think the Capitol riot was led by "violent left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad."

While a 55 percent majority overall said Biden's victory was "legitimate and accurate," one-quarter of Americans from all political affiliations said they think it was the result of illegal ballot-counting or election rigging.

Meanwhile, an 86 percent majority of Democratic Party voters said they believe absentee or mail-in ballots were accurately counted during the election, while only 30 percent of Republicans said they were confident such votes were counted with accuracy.   Thirty-nine percent of Republicans surveyed said they "strongly agree" that the election was stolen from the former president.

In November, Trump said Biden “won” the presidential election because the vote was "rigged."  “No vote watchers or observers allowed, vote tabulated by a radical left privately owned company, Dominion, with a bad reputation & bum equipment that couldn’t even qualify for Texas (which I won by a lot!), the Fake & Silent Media, & more!” Trump tweeted then.

On January 6, a group of mobs supporting Trump launched a deadly assault on the US Capitol, disrupting briefly the certification of the election results.  The assault, which left five people dead, including a member of law enforcement, prompted a historic second impeachment trial against Trump, but the Republican-controlled Senate acquitted the former president.