POLL: Majority of Americans continue to blame former President Trump for the January 6, 2020 insurrection
polls believe Trump bears at least some responsibility for the events on January 6—though the percentage in the24% of NPR/Ipsos respondents said it’s “sometimes” warranted to “engage in violence to protect American democracy,” including 32% of Trump voters, and thepoll found 34% believe violence can be justified against the government—the highest share recorded since polling on that question started in 1995.
Republicans were unsurprisingly more likely than Democrats to play down January 6: 56% of Republicans in the CBS poll said the event was about “defending freedom,” versus 85% of Democrats who said it was an insurrection or attempt to overthrow the government, and a 42% plurality of Republican respondents said they only “somewhat” disapproved of the rioters.65%.
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