POLL: A majority of Republicans think Trump won the popular vote

A survey conducted by the research company Qualtrics showedthat 52% of Republican voters think that Donald Trump won the popular vote in November's general election, despite nationwide totals givingHillary Clintonalmost a 3 million-vote edge.The survey, published Sunday andfirst reported on by the Washington Post, found that in total, 29% of people surveyed thought Trump won the popular vote.An earlier Pew Research Center survey pegged that figure at 19%.Qualtrics found that education played a role in the likelihood of respondents saying Trump won more popular votes, with 60% of Republicans with high-school diplomas saying Trump won, compared to just 37% of college-educated Republicans.Only 7% of Democrats and 24% of independents saidTrump won more popular votes.Trump, who won a sizeable victory in the Electoral College, has at several pointsweighed in on the popular vote, challenging its veracity while also seeming to concede he obtained fewer votes."In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,"Trump tweeted in November, without providing any evidence that voter fraud occurred.While official vote totals have put Clinton ahead, less reputable sourceshave claimed otherwise. Some have even found prominence on the internet's top search engine, Google, amid a postelection focus on the spread of "fake news."In mid-November, Google searches for "final election count"along with other, similar queriesreturned with a link to aWordPress blog that cited sources on Twitter and falsely claimed thatTrump handily won the popular vote.SEE ALSO:'I'm asking you a simple question': Fox News host confronts RNC chair over Trump's denial of Russia hacksJoin the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: This is what it's really like at Trump Tower ' which is disrupting life in New York
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