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The divisive nature and outcome of the 2020 presidential election continues to linger even months afterwards.

Right now, America has Joe Biden as president until at least January 2025. The 2024 presidential election will give Republicans a shot to make Biden a one-term president; although, between now and then, Biden has the White House.

In five months, exactly one year will have passed since the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. However, Americans are still significantly split on their views about the outcome.

Some people in the country believe that Biden is the duly-elected president; although, there still remains a sizable portion of Americans who do not share this view. A recent poll from Monmouth provides additional insight.

Americans on the legitimacy of the Biden presidency

Earlier this month, Monmouth ran a poll to collect data on how many Americans truly believe that Biden fairly defeated former President Trump last year. 61% of voters in the United States classified Biden's win as "fair and square"; however, another 32% stated that voter fraud ultimately got the 46th president into the White House.

Democrats remain deeply critical about claims that voters fraud happened in the 2020 presidential election. Biden supporters and others who believe in the legitimacy of his presidency note that courts across the nation dismissed voter fraud clams. Other critics have even begun referring to assertions of 2020 voter fraud as a "big lie."

According to Monmouth, 38% of voters who are Independents and 57% of GOP voters believe that election fraud put Biden into office.

Re-litigating the past

As time passes, some Republicans are becoming more outspoken about their views that it's time to put aside 2020.

Kevin McCarthy, the House Minority Leader, expressed this view weeks ago. McCarthy explained that it is not conducive for Republicans to fixate on "re-litigating the past"; instead, the top House Republican believes that members of his party need to focus on the midterm races in 2022 and the presidential election in 2024.

Some Republicans have also theorized that hangups over the 2020 presidential election contributed to former Republican Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue losing the Georgia runoffs. These two runoffs went to Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, thus handing Democrats control of the United States Senate.