Bill Barr, on a mission to stop Trump, still might vote for him

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It's hard not to view these two data points as symptoms of a democracy that is sick and in need of immediate attention:

The criminal case could well hinge on whether Trump can be proven to have known he lost the election, as his official advisers all told him.

Whatever he knew in his mind, Trump continues to focus on creating more than a shadow of doubt about US elections, especially when they feature him.

This has helped lead a solid majority of Republican and Republican-leaning independents to doubt that President Joe Biden's defeat of Trump in 2020 was legitimate. The number of doubters in the GOP has been as high as 72% in CNN's polling in 2021. Today, the figure is solidly at 69%. Among registered voters who voted for Trump in 2020, 75% say they have doubts about Biden's legitimacy.

There is a scale of doubt, for sure. A smaller portion of Republican and Republican-leaning voters, 39%, both doubt the election was legitimate and think there is solid evidence to prove it. No evidence of widespread voter fraud has ever been uncovered despite exhaustive reviews and court challenges.

Overall, 61% of Americans say Biden did legitimately win enough votes to win the presidency, and 38% believe that he did not. Read more about the new poll from CNN's Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy.