12 million U.S. adults advocate violence to return Trump to power
CHICAGO, Illinois – Nearly 20% of the U.S. adult population believes former President Donald Trump’s mandate was stolen in 2020.
A poll conducted by the University of Chicago Research Center also found that 12 million people, or 4.4% of the adult population, believe violence is justified to bring Trump back to power.
The disturbing results of the poll also showed that 20% of people consider Joe Biden an illegitimate president.
The poll, shared with the British newspaper The Guardian, also found that 6.3% of respondents thought it was justified to protect the rights of white Americans.
12.4% wanted to restore abortion rights at the federal level and 6.1% wanted to prevent Trump’s prosecution.
Chicago Project on Security & Threats (CPOST) Director Robert Pape said it is troubling that political violence in the U.S. is moving from the margins to the mainstream.
“We’re heading into an extremely tumultuous election season,” Robert Pape, a University of Chicago professor and CPOST director, told The Guardian.
“What’s happening in the United States is political violence is going from the fringe to the mainstream.”
Several right-leaning candidates who repeated Trump’s lies lost in last year’s midterm elections.
But more than 210 others won seats in Congress and elections for governor, secretary of state, and attorney general.
This underscores the extent to which electoral disenfranchisement is now entrenched in the Republican Party.
The latest results are based on polls conducted before Trump was indicted.
In response to the indictment, several Republican lawmakers took sides in Trump’s defense.
CPOST plans to release data from its Dangers to Democracy Survey every three months from now until the 2024 election.
The research center’s survey also found that 14% of respondents believe the use of force is justified to ‘achieve political goals”
On a positive note, 77% of U.S. adults want Republicans and Democrats in Congress to issue a joint statement condemning all political violence.
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