Little has changed over the past year regarding how the American electorate thinks about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack following the conclusion of the special House committee’s investigation: They blame former President Donald Trump and think he’s guilty of crimes.
With the next presidential campaign already underway in some form, a new Morning Consult/Politico survey suggests the issue could weigh on the Republican Party at least as much in 2024 as it did during the midterm elections, when Democrats were able to raise threats to democracy in their issue matrix.
In the latest survey, conducted just ahead of the second anniversary of the Trump-inspired mob’s assault on the Capitol, 55% of voters said the events of Jan. 6 will have at least a minor impact on their 2024 vote, similar to the share that said the same a year ago — before the GOP would go on to underperform expectations in November.
Post-Midterms, Jan. 6 Holds Similar Weight in Voters’ Minds for 2024
Surveys conducted Dec. 18-20, 2021, and Dec. 21-24, 2022, among representative samples of roughly 2,000 registered voters each, with unweighted margins of error of +/-2 percentage points.
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