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Earlier this year, pollster Scott Rasmussen asked voters a simple question: “Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?”

The answers he got back were, as he put it in a Daily Signal podcast last week, “the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen.”

Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. As Rasmussen put it, he’d rather see that number lower, but that’s not bad.

But more than a third of the elite 1% he surveyed would condone cheating. And among those who are “politically obsessed” – meaning that they talk about politics every day – that number shot up to 69%.

Keep in mind that this elite 1% group is overwhelmingly liberal. According to Rasmussen, these are mainly well-educated urbanites who make more than $150,000 a year and think Joe Biden is doing a great job. Nearly three-quarters identify as Democrats.

They are also highly influential when it comes to policy, and they are completely out of touch with everyday Americans. A few examples from the survey:

• Nearly 60% say there is too much individual freedom in America – double the rate of all Americans.
• More than two-thirds (67%) favor rationing of energy and food to combat the threat of “climate change.”
• Nearly three-quarters (70%) of the elites trust the government to “do the right thing most of the time.”
• More than two-thirds (67%) say teachers and other educational professionals should decide what children are taught rather than letting parents decide.
• Nearly three-quarters (74%) say they are financially better off than before COVID, compared with 20% of the general public.

These elites are also the people who are constantly wailing and gnashing their teeth about how Donald Trump is a “grave threat to democracy.” You can’t turn on the television, open a newspaper, or go to any mainstream news site without being warned that “democracy is on the ballot this November,” or told that Trump is a wannabe dictator, his followers semi-fascists, blah, blah, blah.

Yet most of these same elites would be happy to see Biden and the Democratic Party rob and cheat to steal an election rather than let Trump win a second term in office.

Which of course is what has been happening over the past three years, as the liberal elite class took off the gloves to block Trump’s return to the White House, stretching the law past the breaking point to put him on trial, imposing unprecedented fines (and then bragging that they are bankrupting him), and trying to block his name from showing up on the ballot.

As we noted in this space not long ago, leftist elites are even advocating that lawmakers refuse to certify the election if Trump wins it.

As Rasmussen puts it, “they don’t have much respect for the opinions of voters.”

And if these elites do manage to lie, cheat, and steal to secure Biden’s reelection? Well, they will declare that democracy has been saved, reassure the public that the election was 100% legitimate, and label anyone who thinks otherwise as an election-denying insurrectionist.