If 57% of Americans believe that Donald Trump has a responsibility in the events of January 6, 2021, this rate falls to 22% among Republicans, proof of the right-of-way that the former US President retains on these voters.
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One year after the assault of the Capitol by the supporters of Donald Trump who wanted to prevent the certification of the election of Joe Biden, America is still so torn. In a commemorative speech of these events that shook US democracy, the US President had planned to denounce Thursday, January 6 the role of his predecessor. Joe Biden “sees in January 6 [2021] The tragic coronation of what four years of Trump presidency did in this country,” said Jen Psaki, spokesman for the White House, explaining that Mr. Biden would expose “the Special responsibility of President Trump in Chaos “and would denounce” by force the lie that propagates the former president “on the election of 2020 allegedly rigged.
The ceremony could have marked the recovery of an America that surmounted this event. Nothing is settled and America that Joe Biden had promised himself to reconcile his wounds. 31% of Americans and 68% of Republicans believe that Donald Trump was stolen victory, according to three constant surveys of the Public Religion Research Institute. There is no evidence of any fraud in the election of 2020.
In this deleterious context, two-thirds of Americans feel threatened democracy, according to a CBS investigation. Only 54% of them are proud of how it works, compared to 90% in 2002, confirms a survey for the Washington Post and the University of Maryland. Logically, the institutional order is no longer respected: one third of the respondents believe that violence against the government can be justified.
Conputed dissenting voices
Admittedly, the Americans estimate 57% that Donald Trump has an important or rather important responsibility in the Capitol’s assault, but this rate falls to 22% among Republicans. The assault of the Capitol did not prevent the former President of the United States from maintaining its hold on the Republican Party. The dissenting voices, like the representative of the Wyoming Liz Cheney are conspired.
Mr. Trump’s strategy remains chaotic. He had announced a press conference on Thursday, January 6th in his Golf de Mar-A-Lago in Florida, but he finally canceled it, blaming the partiality of the media. According to the US press, some of his advisers felt that he did not have much to gain to express themselves, while many Republicans did not want to put the subject back on the agenda. Donald Trump does nevertheless figure of the Republican Favorite candidate for the presidential election of 2024.
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