CBS News reports:
Most Americans continue to feel U.S. democracy is threatened, and the Jan. 6 hearings offer a window into their different reasons why.
From what they’ve seen of the hearings thus far, half the country thinks former President Donald Trump planned to remain in office through unconstitutional and illegal activities. Half think that he should, in turn, be charged with crimes, and that the attack on the Capitol was an “insurrection.”
Meanwhile, though, most Republicans feel Trump had no such plans, and a big, unmoved majority of them still say President Joe Biden didn’t legitimately win. Half of Republicans still call that day’s events “patriotism,” a view that’s floated around the same mark since that day.
Read the full article.
Amid testimony & discussion of pressure put on election officials in the wake of 2020, most Americans think it is at least somewhat likely that in the future, elections officials will refuse to certify a result for political reasons. https://t.co/gPT48cT4tq pic.twitter.com/XMUaHBdoR9
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) June 26, 2022
From what they’ve seen of the hearings so far, half the country thinks Donald Trump planned to remain in office through unconstitutional & illegal activities. Half think that he should, in turn, be charged with crimes. https://t.co/gPT48cT4tq pic.twitter.com/qTRBynUtmb
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) June 26, 2022
But most Reps feel Trump had no such plans, and a big majority of them (70%) still says Biden didn’t legitimately win. Half of Reps still call that day’s events “patriotism,” a view that’s floated around the same mark since that day. pic.twitter.com/hqmjWO5PQE
— CBS News Poll (@CBSNewsPoll) June 26, 2022