A new poll released Wednesday found that nearly one in three Democrats said they wanted to see Kamala Harris' political opponent gunned down in cold blood on Sunday.
Scott Rasmussen's RMG Research Online Survey The Neapolitan News Service surveyed 1,000 registered voters earlier this week to gauge the public's reaction to the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.
A majority of respondents said they were somewhat or very much paying attention to breaking news about the second assassination attempt on President Trump, which took place on a golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida.
when asked When asked whether U.S. government agencies were involved in plotting the murders, 37 percent of respondents said it was very likely or somewhat likely.
Thirty-four percent of respondents thought the Democrats or Harris' campaign were involved, 33% suggested a foreign government was involved and 33% suggested Trump himself or his campaign orchestrated an elaborate attempt to ambush Democratic donors with high-powered rifles for 12 hours.
A majority of respondents (54%) suggested Trump “used heated language that encouraged some people to commit violence,” while 35% blamed CNN and MSNBC and 33% suggested Harris was an instigator.
But when asked what specific factors contributed to the assassination attempt on President Trump, 45% of respondents blamed anti-Trump rhetoric, 41% the media, 30% the victim's campaign, 25% the Harris campaign, and 18% other reasons.
of question The most shocking result was: “It's always hard to wish ill on others, but would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?”
69% of respondents answered “no” and 14% said “I don't know.”
Seventeen percent of respondents said they would have preferred if Trump had been brutally murdered on his lawn.
“These figures clearly show that we are entering a worsening phase.”
The Neapolitan News Service highlighted that a staggering 28% of Democrats answered “yes.”
Among Democratic respondents, the U.S. do not have As for whether they would benefit from the assassination of a Republican presidential candidate, 25% said they weren't sure.
“It's hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to kill a political opponent,” Scott Rasmussen said.
Rasmussen appeared to be referring to a Democratic talking point that has been repeated ad nauseam in recent years about Trump's supposed threat to democracy.
Harris, President Joe Biden, the Democratic National Committee and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., are among the Democrats whose allies have called Trump a “threat to democracy.” Silencing RepublicansSend him to prison and remove his name from the ballot.
Hispanic respondents were disproportionately more likely to want Trump assassinated: 30% of Hispanics said “yes,” while only 14% of whites and 19% of blacks said they supported political assassinations.
“I believe America's best is yet to come,” Rasmussen said, “but I've been saying for years that things will get worse before they get better, and these numbers show that the worsening phase is clearly upon us.”
Things may be getting worse, but Democrats have been suggesting for years that they were already preparing for this nightmare.
Democrats are currently overly vocal in their support for killing President Trump, but during the pandemic they overly voiced support for incarcerating unvaccinated people and seizing their children.
In a national telephone and online survey of 1,016 voters conducted in January 2022 by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen Reports, pollsters asked“Do you strongly agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, or strongly disagree with the proposal that the federal or state governments should require citizens who refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19 to temporarily reside in designated facilities or locations in order to curb the spread of COVID-19?”
Seventy-one percent of voters and 84% of Republicans opposed sending unvaccinated people to quarantine camps, compared with 45% of Democrats. said They strongly or somewhat agreed with the proposal.
The same poll found that 48% of Democrats said they believed the federal or state governments He questioned the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine. on social media, television, radio, digital publications and more.
Eighty percent of respondents said they somewhat or strongly opposed proposals to separate children from parents who refuse to get an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, while 29% of Democrats indicated support for separating such families.
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