“The large numbers of ‘don’t know,’ especially if you have to volunteer it, is huge. That’s a red flag – that this is just not something about which there’s agreement, even within political ideologies,” said Fred Conrad, PSC Research Affiliate and professor of psychology, on polls that show 40 percent of Democrats and nearly half of independents aren’t sure whether to believe sexual assault claims against presumptive Democratic president nominee Joe Biden.

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