On Monday, NBC News received results of their poll conducted last month. A major takeaway, as highlighted by NBC News “First Read,” is that less Americans now blame former President Donald Trump for the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. The most selected single response is the 35 percent of Americans who say that Trump is “Not really responsible,” while the least selected single response is the 17 percent who said Trump is “Solely responsible.”
According to this most recent poll, 45 percent said Trump is either “Solely responsible” or “Mainly responsible,” at 17 percent and 28 percent, respectively. When NBC News conducted such a poll in January 2021, not long after the incident, a small majority, at 52 percent, said Trump was “solely” or “mainly” responsible, at 28 percent and 24 percent respectively. It also shows that 55 percent of Americans say Trump is “Only somewhat responsible” or “Not really responsible,” at 20 percent and 35 percent respectively.
The poll was conducted May 5-May 7 and May 9-May 10 with 1,000 adults. There’s a margin of error of plus or minus 4.38 percentage points.
As NBC News pointed out about the poll’s takeaways, this decrease in blaming Trump came across all political parties.
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