Majority in new poll condemns Jan. 6 attack, says Trump at least partially to blame
By Caroline Vakil - 01/02/22 10:01 AM EST
A majority of Americans condemns the Jan. 6 riot and believes that former President Trump bears at least some portion of responsibility for that violent attack on the Capitol.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll found 72 percent of Americans say that the people involved in the riot were mostly threatening democracy while 25 percent of those said they were mostly protecting democracy.
The poll also found that 58 percent of people surveyed said that Trump bore a great deal or good amount of responsibility for the Capitol riot, compared to 41 percent who said he bore no or just some responsibility.
A majority of Americans also said they believed that Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory was legitimate, with 65 percent of Americans agreeing. Still, one third - 33 percent - say that they think Biden’s victory was not legitimate nearly one year after he was inaugurated.
The topline findings started to diverge along partisan lines, ABC reported. For example, 45 percent of Republicans believed that the people involved in the attack on the Capitol were threatening democracy as opposed to 52 percent who felt they were protecting democracy.
In comparison, 96 percent of Democrats believed those involved in the attack were threatening democracy, ABC reported.
The new poll comes just before the one-year anniversary of the riot in which Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol to contest the election and tried to stop Congress from certifying Biden's victory.
The ABC/Ipsos poll was conducted between Dec. 27 and Dec. 29, 2021,
interviewing 982 adults. The margin of error is at plus or minus 3.5 percentage points with a 95 percent confidence level.
--Updated at 10:09 a.m.
https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/587901-majority-in-new-poll-condemns-jan-6-attack-says-trump-at-least