According to a new CNN poll that was carried out by SSRS, the opinions of the American public regarding the state of democracy and the threat that was posed to it by the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, have not changed much as a result of the eight public hearings that were held by the House Select Committee investigating the attack on that date.
At the same time, a public consensus has emerged that former President Donald Trump acted at least unethically in trying to hold on to his office after the 2020 election (79 per cent feel he acted either unethically or illegally, including 45 per cent who believe his actions were illegal), that he encouraged political violence in his public statements before January 6 (61 per cent), and that he could have done more to stop the attack once it had begun (77 per cent).
According to the results of the poll taken as a whole, 69 per cent of Americans believe that the attack on January 6 represents a crisis or a major problem for democratic institutions in the United States.
This is a slight increase from earlier in the year when 65% of people said the same thing. In a broader sense, 54 per cent of respondents say they believe an assault is being made on democratic institutions in the United States, which is roughly equivalent to the 52 per cent who held this view earlier in the year.
It seems that partisans are moving in opposite directions, even though there hasn’t been much movement on any of these questions.
While Democrats are becoming more likely to say democracy is under attack (55 per cent now, up from 46 per cent earlier this year) and that the attack on January 6 is a major problem or a crisis (96 per cent now, up from 91 per cent), Republicans are now less likely to feel that way compared to earlier this year, before the select committee’s hearings.
As of right now, only 36% of Republicans consider the events of January 6 to be a crisis or major problem, which is a drop of 7 percentage points since February.
Additionally, 54% of Republicans believe that democracy in the United States is currently under attack, which is a drop from the 66% who felt this way earlier this year.
Approximately four in ten people, in general, have been paying close attention to the news regarding the select committee’s hearings (41%), with Democratic voters paying the most attention (55 per cent of Democrats are following at least somewhat closely, compared with 40 per cent of independents and 28 per cent of Republicans).
47 per cent of all adults say they believe the investigation the committee has carried out has been a fair attempt to determine what happened, while 34 per cent say it’s been a one-sided effort to blame Trump.
The remaining adults feel like they haven’t heard enough to have an opinion on the matter yet. In comparison to polling conducted earlier this year, these results have not changed significantly.
The majority of people (about 60 per cent) are sceptical that the work of the committee will result in changes that will help protect democratic institutions in the United States.
In this regard, Democrats have the most positive outlook; 65 per cent believe that it will result in meaningful change, in contrast to just 37 per cent of independents and 17 per cent of Republicans who hold this view.
Even though there are partisan differences in how people in the United States view Trump’s behaviour around January 6, the majority of people in both parties agree that his behaviour in trying to remain in office was at the very least unethical and that he could have done more to stop the attack.
Almost all Democrats (97 per cent) and a large majority of independents (83 per cent) believe that President Trump engaged in behaviour that was unethical or illegal while he was attempting to maintain his position as president, but the same can be said of the majority of Republicans (55 per cent).
And similarly, 55% of Republicans believe that once the attack had begun, Trump could have done more to thwart it. The sentiment is shared by 93 per cent of Democratic voters as well as 81 per cent of independents.
When asked who did more on January 6 to act in the best interests of the country, the majority of Americans (67 per cent), including large majorities of Democrats (91 per cent) and independents (64 per cent), say that Pence had the nation’s interests more at heart than Trump did. Pence was serving as Vice President at the time.
However, among Republicans, opinions are divided on the subject, with 52% believing that Trump did more to protect the country’s interests than Pence did and 46% holding that Pence did.
And Republicans do not share the view that President Trump’s statements in the days leading up to January 6 incited political violence.
While approximately eight in ten Republicans (79 per cent) think that Trump’s statements did not encourage violence, independents think that they did so 66 per cent of the time, and Democrats think that they did so 94 per cent of the time.
Despite this, an overwhelming number of people continue to disbelieve the conspiracy theory that the presidential election of 2020 was rigged.
According to a new high in CNN’s polling, 69 per cent of respondents believe that Joe Biden honestly won enough votes to win the presidency in 2020. Even so, the majority of Republicans persist in asserting that Biden’s victory was not an honest one (66 per cent).
Republicans and independents who lean Republican are more likely to say the party should accept candidates who believe the 2020 election was rigged (72 per cent say it should be at least somewhat accepting of those candidates) than they are to say the party should accept candidates who say the election was legitimate (58 per cent say it should be at least somewhat accepting of those candidates) (63 per cent say so).
Thirty per cent of respondents believe that the party should only accept candidates who believe that the election was illegitimate, while twenty-two per cent believe that the party should only accept candidates who believe that the election was stolen.
Forty-two per cent of respondents believe that the party should accept a mix of candidates who believe either way.
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Despite this, the majority of Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters now say they do not want Trump to be their party’s presidential nominee in 2024 (55 per cent say they want a different candidate), representing a slight shift away from Trump compared to earlier this year (49 per cent preferred someone other than Trump in a poll conducted in January and February).
The primary reason given by an increasing number of people for why they feel this way is that they do not want him to be president (27 per cent now, up from 19 per cent earlier this year).
However, in comparison to President Joe Biden’s standing among his partisans, Donald Trump’s standing among Republican-aligned voters in advance of the campaign in 2024 is not in as precarious of a position.
A significant jump can be seen from earlier this year when only 51 per cent of Democratic voters and voters who lean Democratic wanted their party to nominate someone else for president in 2024 to the current number of 75 per cent, comes fromtoew poll.
