Nearly 50% of Republicans believe there will be a time soon where 'patriotic Americans' will 'have to take the law into their own hands'
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The YouGov survey for George Washington University was conducted in June
- It asked those polled to respond to the statement that there will be a time coming when 'patriotic Americans have to take the law into their own hands'
- The poll found that 47% of Republicans surveyed agreed with the statement
- Just 9% of Democrats agreed with that same conclusion, in a shocking difference of opinion on partisan political influence on laws in the United States
- More than half of Republicans - 55% - also supported the use of force to 'preserve the traditional American way of life
- Just 15% of Democrats supported the use of force to preserve the nation's values
- Those survey questions were part of a larger survey about American attitudes and confidence toward elections in the wake of the results 2020 election
- The poll found that 75% of Democratic voters were confident in regard to the integrity of the upcoming 2022 midterm elections
- That number is down a single percentage point from the 2020 election, in which 76% of Democratic voters expressed confidence in the integrity of the election
- Just 28% of Republicans are confident in the integrity of the 2022 election, down 18 percentage points from the number of GOP voters, 46%, before the 2020 vote
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-07-31 |