Even 20% of Republicans agree
With the first full week of hearings for the House select committee’s investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now complete, nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the incident, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.
Six in 10 Americans also believe the committee is conducting a fair and impartial investigation, according to the poll.
In the poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel, 58% of Americans think Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the riot. That’s up slightly from late April, before the hearings began, when an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 52% of Americans thought the former president should be charged.
The key here is the Independents, 61% of whom believe Trump should be charged with a crime. That’s not good news for him.
This is good news as well:
Overall, 60% of Americans think the committee is conducting a fair and impartial investigation while 38% say it is not, the new ABC News/Ipsos poll found. That was evenly divided at 40% in the April ABC News/Washington Post poll, which also found that 20% of Americans had no opinion on the matter just two months ago.
I think the fact that it is a very sober, serious presentation really helps. Also, all the witnesses are Republicans which makes it hard to complain that it’s a purely partisan exercise. (They are saying it, of course, but that 20% or so of Republican voters and the GOP leaning Independents matter and they aren’t buying the whining.)
This matters as well:
