Majority of US voters condemned the takeover of the Capitol, Republicans were divided

The seizure of the Capitol building by supporters of the current US President Donald Trump is condemned by 71% of registered American voters. This is evidenced by the data of the YouGov survey.

 

21% of voters supported the actions of the protesters. At the same time, support and condemnation were significantly divided by party affiliation:

– Democrats: support 2%, condemn 96%;

– independent: support 21%, condemn 67%;

– Republicans: support 45%, condemn 43%.

Among those who are confident of significant fraud in the US presidential elections, the protesters were supported by 56%, while 34% condemned.

Most voters consider Trump to be responsible for what happened: 55% consider him to be significant, and another 11% blame him on some of the responsibility. 31% either do not see Trump’s guilt or consider it insignificant. On this issue, opinions were also divided by party sympathies: 96% of Democrats accuse Trump and only 28% of Republicans.

The survey involved 1,448 registered voters, of whom 1,397 were aware of the events in the Capitol. The poll was conducted on January 6 from 5:17 PM to 5:42 PM ET. The error is no more than 3.3%..

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