{"id":552787,"date":"2021-06-04T14:46:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552787"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:20:22","slug":"voters-disagree-with-bidens-rhetoric-about-capitol-attack-george-floyd-protests-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voters-disagree-with-bidens-rhetoric-about-capitol-attack-george-floyd-protests-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Disagree With Biden&#039;s Rhetoric About Capitol Attack, George Floyd Protests: Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvoters-disagree-with-bidens-rhetoric-about-capitol-attack-george-floyd-protests-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=552787&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-221.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Most voters disagree with President Joe Biden&#8217;s characterizations of the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol and last summer&#8217;s protests following George Floyd&#8217;s death, according to a new Rasmussen survey.<\/p>\n<p>Only 44% of likely voters agreed with Biden that the assault on the Capitol was &#8220;the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.&#8221;\u00a0A total of 41% disagreed, and 14% said they weren\u2019t sure, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/terrorism\/voters_don_t_agree_with_biden_and_media_on_riots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rasmussen Reports<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding\u00a0last summer&#8217;s protests, voters were asked, &#8220;Were the widespread disturbances in U.S. cities last summer &#8216;mostly peaceful protests&#8217; or were they riots?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just 35% agreed that the &#8220;disturbances&#8221; were &#8220;mostly peaceful protests,&#8221;\u00a0while 52% said they were riots, and 13% were not sure.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, voters were split along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Among Democrats, 66% said Biden was correct in saying Jan. 6 was &#8220;the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War&#8221;\u00a0in his April 28 speech to a joint session of Congress. Twenty-six percent of Republicans, and 38% of voters not affiliated with either major party agreed.<\/p>\n<p>As for voters disagreeing with the president&#8217;s rhetoric regarding the attack, they included 59% of GOP voters, 20% of Democrats, and 48% of unaffiliated voters.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the &#8220;widespread disturbances in U.S. cities last summer,&#8221; 69% of Republicans said they were riots, as did 32% of Democrats, and 55% of unaffiliated voters.<\/p>\n<p>A majority (54%) of Democrats said the disturbances were &#8220;mostly peaceful protests.&#8221;\u00a0Only 22% of Republicans, and 27% of unaffiliated voters agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Among Black voters, less than half (47%) said the disturbances after Floyd\u2019s death while in police custody were &#8220;mostly peaceful&#8221;\u00a0protests, as did 35% of whites, and 30% of other minorities.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 52% of white voters said the disturbances were riots, as did 42% of Black voters, and 56% of other minorities.<\/p>\n<p>A majority (51%) of Black voters agreed with Biden that the Capitol attack was &#8220;the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.&#8221; The poll found 44% of whites, and 42% of other minorities agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Those disagreeing with Biden\u2019s rhetoric about the attack were 41% of white voters, 34% of Black voters, and 45% of other minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Among voters who agreed with Biden\u2019s description of the Capitol attack, 58% said the disturbances last summer were &#8220;mostly peaceful protests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among voters who disagreed with Biden\u2019s rhetoric about the Capitol violence, 77% said last summer\u2019s disturbances were riots.<\/p>\n<p>Government workers were more likely than private-sector employees or retirees to agree with Biden\u2019s claim that the Jan. 6 assault was &#8220;the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five percent of those with graduate degrees, and 66% of those earning $200,000 a year or more, agreed with Biden. People with less income or education were less likely to agree with the president\u2019s\u00a0claim.<\/p>\n<p>The only income category with a majority saying last summer&#8217;s disturbances were &#8220;mostly peaceful protests&#8221; was voters earning $200,000 a year or more.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey of 870 likely voters was conducted June 2-3. The margin of sampling error is +\/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Previous Rasmussen surveys found that a majority of voters supported the creation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/current_events\/terrorism\/most_voters_support_commission_to_investigate_capitol_riot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commission<\/a> to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and a majority still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/lifestyle\/social_issues\/americans_worry_that_anti_police_rhetoric_endangers_public_safety\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">supported police<\/a> and worried that criticism of cops will make their communities less safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most voters disagree with President Joe Biden&#8217;s characterizations of the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol and last summer&#8217;s protests following George Floyd&#8217;s death, according to a new Rasmussen survey. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279249,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-221.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Voters Disagree With Biden&#039;s Rhetoric About Capitol Attack, George Floyd Protests: Poll","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GetFile-221.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Voters Disagree With Biden&#039;s Rhetoric About Capitol Attack, George Floyd Protests: Poll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}