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Nearly a majority of US adults believe there will be violence regarding future presidential election losses, new polling revealed.
Three years out from the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and only months away from the 2024 presidential election, over two-thirds of Americans feel that democracy is under threat, Axios reported.
51% of respondents expect the losing side to accept their losses peacefully, according to a CBS/YouGov poll released Saturday.
However, 49% expect violence over those losses.
Meanwhile, 70% of respondents believe US democracy is under threat, while 30% feel that democracy is secure.
This comes as 39% of respondents do not consider President Joe Biden to be the legitimate winner of the 2020 presidential election, per the poll.
Yet, multiple probes and recounts of 2020 election votes have disproven claims of widespread election fraud.
78% of respondents disapprove of the “actions taken by the people who forced their way into the US Capitol” on January 6.
That figure included 70% of Republicans, 82% of independents and 84% of Democrats.
The percentage of Republicans who strongly disapprove of those actions on January 6 (32%) has dwindled nearly 20 points since January 2021, when that figure stood at 51%, according to the poll.
Over a third of respondents described the actions of “the people who forced their way into the US Capitol” on January 6 as “defending freedom”.
59% of Republicans felt this way as opposed to 28% of independents and 18% of Democrats.
Three years since the January 6 riot, over 1,265 people have been charged with crimes related to January 6, according to the US attorney’s office for D.C.
