Poll: 73% of Republicans blame 'left-wing protesters' for Jan. 6 attack. Just 23% blame Trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

As a Senate showdown looms over the creation of an independent, 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals just how partisan and polarized public perceptions of the attack have become — and how those perceptions are shaping the clash in Congress.

The survey of 1,588 U.S. adults, which was conducted from May 24 to May 26, found that less than half of Republicans (41 percent) say supporters of then-President Donald Trump who gathered on Jan. 6 at the Capitol to rally against the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory bear “some” or “a great deal” of the blame for the subsequent riot, which left several people dead and more than 140 injured. Less than a quarter (23 percent) blame Trump himself, and most (52 percent) say he is “not at all” to blame.

Yet a full 73 percent of Republicans pin “some” or “a great deal” of responsibility on “left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad,” even though both the FBI and Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have rejected the falsehood that leftist protesters were involved.

The vast majority of Democrats, meanwhile, say blame for the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries falls on the Trump supporters who assembled in Washington (84 percent), Trump himself (83 percent) and Republicans who claimed the election was stolen (79 percent). Most Americans (63 percent, 55 percent and 56 percent, respectively) agree.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-73-percent-of-republicans-blame-left-wing-protesters-for-jan-6-attack-just-23-percent-blame-trump-191520343.html

The GOP truly is the stupid party

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And that is why violence is all we have to look forward to.

[FoxNewsSucks]

2. That's what Hate Radio

OAN, NewsMax, and the Fox "news" Sewer hammer into their heads 24/7.

[Takket]

3. 23% is actually kind of shocking. i would have guessed 2.3%

[Bristlecone]

4. Dumbasses confirm they are still dumbasses

[TheRealNorth]

6. +1

That should be the headline.

[Bev54]

5. These morons cannot think beyond the primaries

All very lovely they don't get primaried by a Trump backed replacement but independents and many republicans as well do understand what went on and who is responsible. They are not going to buy the BS being peddled by the republicans.

[dawg day]

7. They are idiots-

Though I think many of them are just lying-- they know Trump's to blame, but they like that his thugs attacked Congress.

[lame54]

8. Then tell them to urge their leaders to vote for an investigation

[NYC Liberal]

9. So then they should welcome an independent investigation.

[spooky3]

11. Good point. And did it occur to any of them

That Biden supporters would have no reason to protest an election that Biden won?

[NYC Liberal]

21. Excellent point!

Logic is not their strong suit.

[Pinback]

30. Things that make you go "Huh."

[bdamomma]

10. we know

what we saw that day, and they were tRump supporters and others who were called to arms. Trial by combat????? Loud and clear.

[spooky3]

12. That opening paragraph reflects media bias. If one side accepts the empirical

truth and the other believes lies that would benefit themselves if true, that is NOT PARTISAN. It is not “perceptions.” One side is right and the other is wrong.

[Cosmocat]

43. T H I S X 1,000,000

This is why we are here.

[spooky3]

44. Thank you. I get so angry when media outlets push the false equivalence

or are so easily bullied by RWers.

[Mz Pip]

13. The GQP would DEMAND

an investigation if they really believed it was leftist in origin.

How stupid can they be to believe the GQP would let this go if they thought they could blame the left for it?

[LenaBaby61]

14. "How stupid can they be to believe the GQP would let this go ....

if they thought they could blame the left?"

[prodigitalson]

15. And yet they think it's time to move on

interesting

[Thrill]

16. This is why Turtle and McCarthy feel comfortable opposing it

Unreal

[JHB]

17. But they hate us for our "condescension" toward them.

Guys:

1) Less often than you guys think we do. If you actually talked to us, you might know that. And

2) To the extent that it's true, stop proving us right.

[uponit7771]

18. This is what 20 years of establishing AM radio among rural voters will get you

[spanone]

19. Time to educated these ignorant MoFo's

SET UP THE DEMOCRAT'S INVESTIGATION NOW

[MissMillie]

20. Nobody needs to make 45 look bad.

He is bad, and he reminds us with everything he says and does.

[gulliver]

22. It's like a guy in a dark subway train telling you, "Hey, that laptop looks a lot like mine."

"Where did you get it?"

They don't think your laptop looks like theirs really. They're just getting ready to mug you.

[Ilsa]

23. Great! Time to sell them some swampland or moon rocks!

They are so gullible that they can't understand what is right before their eyes, even when the perps are confessing.

[toughtony]

24. They are lying to the pollsters

Trump supporters will never tell a pollster or media the truth. Decisions or opinions should not be made based on these types of polls. If they saw trump beating an 8 yo child and a pollster asked them about it, 73% would say it didn't happen. In their little minds this is about war with democrats. Everything boils down to that.. We all saw what happened. We all know they are lying to the pollsters. We have the power we should just do what needs to be done with or without their support. This has become too tribal to rely bipartisanship. Any attempt at bipartisanship by Republicans will be viewed by trump as treason to trump.

[Mad_Machine76]

25. Are they not chomping at the bit then

for an investigation?!

[Demovictory9]

26. what?! "left wingers" weren't even there

[Crowman2009]

27. Well if they were left-wing protestors, why are they so adamant about not having an investigation?

Oh wait, more doubletalk BS from these assholes.

[andym]

28. SO why didn't they insist their Senators vote for the investigation? NT.

[Botany]

29. At half of that 73% know that isn't true but like saying it because they want to "own the libs" ...

... just like they keep saying that Trump really one the election. This is pure gas lighting with help
from Fox, News Max, OAN, and other radio/tv/internet "hate talk" propaganda platforms.

Nice sample size too. "The survey of 1,588 ..... "

[spanone]

31. 73% of republicons have been brainwashed by the former insurrectionist and his media lackeys

I could forgive stupid, the GQP is fucking evil.

[Bettie]

32. What percentage of the population currently

identifies as "Republican".

It is a large portion of a small group of people.

So, while disturbing, it is in no way a majority or even a plurality of people who believe this.

[Paladin]

33. Republicans, obeying the command to not believe their lying eyes.

Stupid bastards.

[Xipe Totec]

34. If 73% of Republicans truly believed it was 'left-wing protesters', they'd support an investigation

But they don't.

They know it was Trump, and lie to the pollsters.

Prevarication has become the GOP modus operandi.

[FakeNoose]

35. 73% of Repukes want to let AntiFa off the hook for January 6th

... because hey ... bipartisanship, am I right?

[BlueWavePsych]

36. Why am I not suprised.

[Nululu]

37. Amazing how gullible the Republicans are to propaganda

These aren't even believable lies. When Republicans refuse to believe their own eyes and embrace RW propaganda things are breaking down

Republicans are losing members daily but still hold too much power.

[Hortensis]

38. And 73% of Pubs are enraged that the world is appalled by them.

The least disciplined of them are acting out in public places, while the rest simmer and spit more privately at former friends, acquaintances, customers. Extremist attitudes have created rifts in their churches as well.

[Dan]

39. It's getting to the point, where I don't care what Trump supporters think.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

40. 73% of Puketards

Need to move the fuck to Siberia.

[Dorn]

41. Not "Jan. 6 attack", Jan 6 coup attempt

Let's call a coup attempt, a coup attempt!

[MustLoveBeagles]

42. They're lying to pollsters

If they really believed that they'd support an investigation.

[The Wizard]

45. they have a propaganda operation that would make

Goebbels green with envy, and Pravda, TASS, and Izvestia look like rank amateurs. A mix of QAnon, hatred, fear and loathing appealing to the worst fears and lowest instincts. It will turn out bad.