25% Of Republicans Say Capitol Riot Was “Justified”

The Washington Post reports:

For the most part, Americans have a shared view of the attack at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021: It was an unwarranted attack for which Donald Trump and his supporters in Washington that day bear blame. But a substantial subset of Americans — including a large chunk of Trump’s party — disagree.

The question of how Americans view the attack and its causes has been evaluated regularly over the past 17 months. This week, polling conducted by YouGov for Yahoo News offers a new assessment, one of the first since the House select committee began its series of public hearings focused on the day’s violence.

Read the full article. There are multiple graphs.

A quarter of Republicans view the Jan. 6 attack as justified https://t.co/XmOfk5pxmt

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