45% of Republicans approve of the Capitol riots, poll claims

[Nexus2]

Almost half of Republicans support rioters who stormed the US Capitol building on Wednesday, a new poll claims.

Among Republicans who responded to the survey carried out by YouGov, some 45 per cent said they supported the rioters who scaled walls, overcame Capitol police, stormed Congress, smashed windows, and planted explosives.

As many as one-fifth (21 per cent) of all respondents to the survey were supportive of the Capitol rioters, according to YouGov, although only 2 per cent of Democrats agreed with their actions

The chaos, which delayed the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election win, forced lawmakers to barricade themselves inside congressional offices while Donald Trump’s supporters ran riot within the Capitol Building.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/republicans-congress-capitol-support-trump-b1783807.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Quick Math 45% of 48% is 25% of voters or so.

About what I expect.

[Under The Radar]

2. Wasn't there a poll that 61% supported the March on Tuesday?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. I think this is the 20th time somebody has posted this shit useless INTERNET "poll". . . . nt

[Nexus2]

7. First time I saw it.

*shrug*

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

4. wtf is "yougov?" lets have some informational literacy folks - question the

source, question the methodology, question how they define "republican" - is that card carrying member, person who voted for Trump, person who self identifies? Question what the motive/agenda is - what are they hoping to accomplish .... clickbait, getting people riled and getting lots of hits would be my guess.

What Im hearing from righties is they dont appove of the actions, and somehow left wingers are to blame. Either this is left's false flag operation, OR somehow poor pitiful trump was driven to extremes by Dems out to get him from day 1. They dont like it, but they wont accept any blame.

Doesnt jibe at all with what this questionable poll says.

[mucifer]

5. in a month it will be 89%

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. I wouldn't assume they have anything approaching an accurate idea of what happened.

And keep in mind many are blaming the bad stuff on Antifa.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. This will change tomorrow.

Link to tweet

?s=21

[treestar]

9. Yet they didn't approve of the women's march

and they said they must have been unemployed to be able to do it, on welfare, etc. But I guess theses deplorables have jobs and their bosses gave them the day off, and the violence was the antifa infiltrators.