U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021, in Washington, D.C. | Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images
Nearly two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants do not believe that President Joe Biden was legitimately elected, according to data from the public policy research organization American Enterprise Institute.
Recently, AEI’s Survey Center on American Life released findings from its January 2021 American Perspectives Survey. The research is based on interviews with 2,016 adults from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey focused on the post-election political views of Americans and was announced earlier this month.
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A significant number of Americans believe that violence may be necessary to improve national politics and policies, according to a new study.
On Thursday, Feb. 10, the American Survey Center revealed that nearly one-third of Americans (29 percent) agreed with the statement “If elected leaders will not protect America, the people must do it themselves even if it requires taking violent actions.”
Nearly 70 percent of Americans rejected violence as a means to political ends, according to the survey.
The American Perspectives Survey, January 2021, took the nation’s pulse on a variety of topics including whether people are proud to be American, reactions to the 2020 presidential election, Trump’s influence, political conspiracy fantasies, fascism, and the Capitol Building attack.
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In the age of insurrection hysteria, here s a little flashback to September 2020. In September, 44 percent of Republicans and 41 percent of Democrats said there would be at least “a little” justification for violence if the other party’s nominee wins the election. Those figures are both up from June, when 35 percent of Republicans and 37 percent of Democrats expressed the same sentiment. Back in June, more Democrats supported violence than Republicans, but both figures are likely within the margin of error. This one is from earlier in 2020 On the question of outright violence, Americans are slightly more subdued. Only 16 percent of Americans believe that using violence to advance political goals would be even “a little” justified. This number is essentially equal among Republicans and Democrats. When asked to think ahead to the possibility of losing the 2020 election, that number grows to 21 percent of Americans. Republicans and Democrats a