Roughly 2 in 10 Americans support President Joe Biden's decision to pardon his son Hunter, and 80-year-olds say they won't do so, according to a poll released Wednesday. This is a stunning reversal of President Biden's previous promises.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found this discomfort corresponds to the bipartisan uproar the move has caused in Washington, D.C. AP report:
The survey found that a relatively small percentage of Americans “strongly” or “somewhat” support a pardon granted to the younger Biden after he was convicted on gun and tax charges.
Approximately half of the respondents said they either strongly or somewhat opposed the idea, and about 2 in 10 said they neither agreed nor disagreed.
The Associated Press continues to point out that the Democratic president has vowed not to use his pardon power to benefit his family, and even after Republican Donald Trump's victory in the November election, the White House has maintained Biden's position. continued to insist that nothing had changed.
Flashback: Shortly after President Trump was elected, the White House insisted Joe Biden would not pardon Hunter.
Biden then performed an impressive public backflip.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden made the decision just before the announcement after much deliberation, citing “how politically contagious these events were” and “how politically contagious Biden was.” We tried to improve this decision by taking into account the following: The other party was trying to do that. ”
Additionally, polls show that about 4 in 10 Democrats support amnesty, while about 3 in 10 disapprove, and about a quarter have no opinion or are willing to speak out. He says he didn't have that much knowledge.
Some people don't try to deal with this problem at all.
A majority of Republicans and about half of independents had a negative opinion.
The poll of 1,251 adults was conducted between December 5 and 9, 2024, using a sample drawn from NORC's probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. Implemented. The margin of sampling error for all adults is plus or minus 3.7 percentage points.
