A new AP-NORC poll shows that nearly half of Americans think Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the January 6 riot.
Nearly half of Americans think that Donald Trump should be charged with a crime.
A majority of Americans are in favor of charging Trump with a crime.
A majority of Americans think the former president bears a lot of responsibility for the events at the Capitol.
A majority of Democrats and a small number of Republicans support charges against him.
After the first five hearings of the committee were broadcast, the polls were conducted.
The hearings appear to have had an impact on public opinion of Republicans in Congress, with 45% now saying they were responsible for the incident, up from 40% in December.
More than half of Americans have followed news coverage of the hearings, but less have watched or listened to them.
27% of the votes were cast. 42% of Republicans say they have followed the news coverage of the hearings, while 34% say they have watched them. According to the AP, Fox News has seen a decline in daytime viewers when it broadcasts the hearings.
According to a poll conducted by Morning Consult after the first five hearings, 65 percent of voters think Trump tried to overturn the election and 64 percent think he should be criminally prosecuted. A majority of voters think Trump's efforts to overturn the election were a crime. The AP-NORC and Morning Consult polls were done before Cassidy Hutchinson testified. According to Hutchinson, Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limo and lunged at a secret service agent on the day of the riots after being told he couldn't be taken to the Capitol. Hutchinson said that Trump ordered his staffers to remove metal detectors so he could greet his supporters with guns.
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