From Reuters:
“Poll: Most
Americans think Trump at least partially responsible for Capitol attack”
-Seventy-one
percent of American adults, including nearly half of all Republicans, believe
former President Donald Trump was at least partially responsible for starting
the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Ipsos poll
conducted for Reuters. But the national online poll, released on Saturday, also
showed that a smaller proportion -- only about half of the country -- thinks
Trump should be convicted of inciting insurrection at his Senate impeachment
trial or barred from holding public office again.
The survey of
998 adults, which ran after Trump’s lawyers concluded their presentation at the
trial on Friday, revealed how many Americans are balancing what they understand
to be Trump’s role in the attack with what they think he deserves in response. When
asked what they thought of Trump’s role, 30% of Americans said he was “fully”
responsible for sparking the violent confrontation between police and Trump
loyalists who broke into Congress in hopes of stopping lawmakers from
certifying the November 2020 presidential election results. Another 25% said he
was largely responsible, 16% said he was partially responsible, and the
remaining 29% said they thought Trump was not at all responsible for the attack
that left five people dead. While Democrats were much more likely than
Republicans to blame Trump for the assault, nearly half of all Republicans
agreed that Trump was at least “partially” responsible. Still, when asked what
the Senate should do in response, a smaller proportion of the country,
including smaller percentages of Democrats and Republicans, said they would go
so far as to convict Trump of insurrection. Fifty percent of those polled said
they would convict Trump if they were given a vote. Another 38% said Trump
should not be convicted, and 12% said they were not sure. Fifty-three percent
said Trump should be barred from holding public office again, while 39% said he
should be allowed to. The Senate impeachment trial was expected to conclude on
Saturday. A conviction requires a two-thirds majority, meaning at least 17
Republicans in the 100-seat chamber would have to join all 50 Democrats to find
Trump guilty. That seemed unlikely. Trump’s lawyers say Trump did not intend to
unleash a riot at the Capitol, and that he was exercising his constitutional
right to free speech when he addressed his supporters.
About 73% of
those polled said they had decided whether Trump should be convicted or not
before the Senate trial started, and the other 27% made up their minds during
the trial. The Ipsos poll was conducted in English across the United States. It
gathered responses from 998 adults between the ages of 18 and 65, and the
survey sample was weighted using the latest population estimates to better
reflect the American public. The results have a credibility interval, a measure
of precision, of 4 percentage points.
^ 73% of
Americans can see the truth even when 43 Republican Senators refused to. ^
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