{"id":224674,"date":"2021-01-10T08:23:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T08:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224674"},"modified":"2021-01-12T07:13:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:13:48","slug":"poll-only-27-of-gop-voters-say-storming-of-capitol-a-direct-threat-on-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=224674","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Only 27% of GOP Voters Say Storming of Capitol a \u201cDirect Threat on Democracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2014 45% Support the Actions<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Washington-DC-riots.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-224579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Washington-DC-riots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Washington-DC-riots.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Washington-DC-riots-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 620px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jim Holt \u2013 The Gateway Pundit Jan 8, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Nearly half of Republicans support the storming of the US Capitol on Wednesday following what many see as a stolen election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Only 27% see it as a threat to democracy.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The rest think stealing elections is a bigger threat to democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Via<a href=\"https:\/\/today.yougov.com\/topics\/politics\/articles-reports\/2021\/01\/06\/US-capitol-trump-poll?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=website_article&amp;utm_campaign=snap_US_capitol_poll\"> YouGov.com:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A YouGov Direct poll of 1,397 registered voters who had heard about the event finds that most (62%) voters perceive these actions as a threat to democracy. Democrats (93%) overwhelmingly see it this way, while most (55%) Independents also agree. Among Republicans, however, only a quarter (27%) think this should be considered a threat to democracy, with two-thirds (68%) saying otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, many Republicans (45%) actively support the actions of those at the Capitol, although as many expressed their opposition (43%).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegatewaypundit.com\/2021\/01\/poll-27-gop-voters-say-storming-capitol-direct-threat-democracy-45-support-actions\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a quarter of Americans questioned saw the storming of Capitol Hill as a \u201cthreat to democracy\u201d. More actually supported the protesters  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224674"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224709,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224674\/revisions\/224709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}