Eight Jan. 6 Hearings Later, Republicans Still Mostly Just Shrug
27th July 2022
It’s a witch-hunt show trial. Is anybody supposed to take it seriously?
The question all along was the extent to which the public’s views of Donald Trump’s effort to stay president would be changed by the committee’s work. Might the committee be able to convince non-Democrats of Trump’s culpability for the worst elements of that day? Could it persuade Republicans to see Trump’s efforts as unacceptable?
Not without proof, proof that was never presented.
New polling from CNN, conducted by SSRS, suggests that views of Trump within his party have eroded a bit since the hearings began. Overall, though, many Republicans don’t see Trump as having done anything wrong — and a plurality still somehow believe the purported predicate for Trump’s objections, that there’s solid evidence the 2020 election was stolen.
Gee, I wonder why?