Half of Americans still blame Trump for the Jan 6th riot
Washington, DC, June 9, 2022 – A new Reuters/Ipsos poll fielded in advance of the Congressional January 6th Select Committee hearings, finds 2 in 5 have heard, read, or seen at least a fair amount about the hearings. The committee will present previously unseen material documenting January 6th, receive witness testimony, and provide the American people an initial summary of its findings.[1]
Our poll finds half of Americans (51%) think Trump is responsible for the Jan 6th riot, and that the people who broke into the Capitol are criminals. In fact, 66% of Americans say that what happened on Jan 6th at the Capitol is more akin to protesters committing criminal acts by trying to stop the certification of the election through violence and intimidation than protesters gathering to express their First Amendment rights to free speech, assembly, and petitioning of government (34%). Eighty-four percent disagree that it is acceptable for someone in their political party to commit violence to achieve a political goal.
Finally, 55% also say Trump should not run for President again in 2024 and 58% say the people who were at the Capitol and have since been arrested or criminally charged are being treated fairly.
[1] https://january6th.house.gov/
About the Study
These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between June 7-8, 2022. For this survey, a sample of 1,004 Americans age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii were interviewed online in English. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3.8 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Americans been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including but not limited to coverage error and measurement error.
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