Most Americans held the incumbent President Donald Trump responsible for the unrest in the Capitol during the approval of the electoral vote in the US Congress. Interfax reports this with reference to a survey by the University of Queeniepeck.
According to the results of the study, 56 percent of US residents believe that Trump is directly responsible for what happened. 53 percent of citizens believe that the president should voluntarily leave office. At the same time, 52 percent believe that the head of state should be removed from office. In addition, 47 percent of those surveyed noted that the storming of the Capitol was an attempted coup.
Earlier it was reported that the majority of American voters saw a threat to democracy in the storming of the Capitol. According to a poll by the Internet company YouGov, 93 percent of Democrats considered the incident a threat to democracy, and a majority of neutral voters joined them – 55 percent. However, only 27 Republicans supported their opinion.
The storming of the US Capitol building took place on January 6 during a rally of supporters of the current head of state, Donald Trump, who do not recognize the results of the November vote, which resulted in the election of Democrat Joe Biden as president. The rallies led to clashes with the police. Five people died, dozens were detained.