New survey finds agreement on most core American values

new vote found Most Americans agree with most of our country’s core values, such as the right to vote and religious freedom.

According to the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 91 percent of U.S. adults say the right to vote is very or extremely important to the country’s identity. 84% of American adults surveyed said religious freedom is very or extremely important to the country’s identity.

The results showed “only small differences between Republicans and Democrats,” except for questions about the right to keep and bear arms, according to the Associated Press.

60% of Republicans answered ranked The right to keep and bear arms is very important to the nation’s identity, 41% of respondents say so, compared to 19% of Democratic respondents.

The tenuous agreement among Americans about the importance of the right to keep and bear arms to preserving American identity reflects the nation’s common political disagreements over gun control. Democrats generally support stricter laws regarding firearms and firearms available to Americans. Who can keep guns, and Republicans often support loosening gun laws.

Sixty percent of Democratic respondents say press freedom is very important to the country’s identity, 15 percentage points higher than the 45% of Republican respondents who say so.

Former President Trump, the current Republican presidential candidate, has also pursued press freedom in the past, saying during the 2016 campaign that he intended to “open up” libel laws to sue news organizations. .

President Trump said at the time: “I’m going to open up our defamation laws so that when they write intentionally negative, horribly false articles, we can sue them and win big money.” ” he said.

“We are going to open up these defamation laws,” he added. “So if the New York Times wrote a hit piece, which is a complete disgrace, or the Washington Post, which exists for a different reason, wrote a hit piece, we would sue them and make money. You can win.”

The AP-NORC poll was conducted March 21-25 among a sample of 1,282 people and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level.