Former President Donald Trump's denials that he praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's generals were apparently not necessary, as new data suggests many Republican voters would vote for him anyway. Washington Post analyst Philip Bump revealed on Election Day disturbing responses to a poll questioning how they'd respond to a candidate who said what Trump's former chief of staff Kelly reports the former president has: that Hitler had done "some good things." Two-thirds of Republicans said they would stick with the candidate, or at least not immediately reject him, Bump reported. "Among those who said they plan to vote for Trump this year, just under half said they would vote for the candidate anyway," Bump wrote. "Trump’s denial of having made these comments is less important than the fact that only a fraction of his support would dissipate even if he provably had." ALSO READ: 'Bloodbath': Inside the MAGA playbook for mayhem after Election Day Bump also reported strange findings when it came to Vice President Kamala Harris. "Republicans are about equally likely to say that Harris thinks Hitler is completely bad as they are to say that Trump does," Bump wrote. "This is very much in keeping with other polling that presents Republicans as drawing a dubious equivalence between the two presidential candidates: that each is as likely to reject the election outcome, for example." Worse yet, the poll suggests American views are shifting when it comes to the dictator who orchestrated the Holocaust and the systematic murder of 6 million Jewish people. "We shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that consideration of Hitler has shifted from viewing him as the archetype of political evil to shading him in gray for partisan purposes," Bump wrote. "That shift by itself is striking, both a reflection of and an apparent contributor to Trump’s politics."

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