(The Guardian) As the January 6 committee enters what is likely to be the home stretch of its investigation, a new poll has found it hasn’t meaningfully shifted beliefs about what happened that day.
Monmouth University finds that around four in 10 Americans hold Donald Trump responsible for the insurrection at the Capitol, slightly less than in late June, while three in 10 believe the election was stolen from him, a figure that’s moved little since November 2020.
People are also divided over the hearings’ impacts on democracy, with about 25% saying it strengthens it, 34% saying it weakens the system of government and 35% saying it has no impact. However, the poll did find opinions of America’s system of government have rebounded in recent months:
Director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute Patrick Murray tied the hearings’ ebb and flow to Americans’ perceptions of the system of government.
“There’s certainly a correlation between the hearings kicking off and a decreased faith in the American system’s resilience, but it is not clear what caused the rebound,” he said. “It may be that Americans feel confident in our democratic processes after withstanding the test of Jan. 6, or it could simply be they are no longer thinking about those dangers without the weekly presence of televised hearings.”
Monmouth University finds that around four in 10 Americans hold Donald Trump responsible for the insurrection at the Capitol, slightly less than in late June, while three in 10 believe the election was stolen from him, a figure that’s moved little since November 2020.
People are also divided over the hearings’ impacts on democracy, with about 25% saying it strengthens it, 34% saying it weakens the system of government and 35% saying it has no impact. However, the poll did find opinions of America’s system of government have rebounded in recent months:
Director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute Patrick Murray tied the hearings’ ebb and flow to Americans’ perceptions of the system of government.
“There’s certainly a correlation between the hearings kicking off and a decreased faith in the American system’s resilience, but it is not clear what caused the rebound,” he said. “It may be that Americans feel confident in our democratic processes after withstanding the test of Jan. 6, or it could simply be they are no longer thinking about those dangers without the weekly presence of televised hearings.”
