Posted on 07/16/2024 8:40:28 PM PDT by libh8er
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans fear their country is spiraling out of control following an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, with worries growing that the Nov. 5 election could spark more political violence, a Reuters/Ipsos poll that closed on Tuesday found.
The two-day poll found Republican presidential candidate Trump opening a marginal lead among registered voters - 43% to 41% - over Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, an advantage that was within the poll's 3 percentage point margin of error, suggesting the attempt on Trump's life had not sparked a major shift in voter sentiment.
But 80% of voters - including similar shares of Democrats and Republicans - said they agreed with a statement that "the country is spiraling out of the control." The poll, which was conducted online, surveyed 1,202 U.S. adults nationwide, including 992 registered voters.
Trump narrowly avoided death on Saturday when a would-be assassin's bullet grazed his ear as he spoke at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Blood trickled across his face and he defiantly pumped his fist in the air, mouthing the words "Fight! Fight! Fight!" as he was rushed offstage. A rally attendee was slain and two others seriously injured.
The shooting brought back memories of turbulent political periods such as the 1960s, when Democratic President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, followed by the killing of Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
Some 84% of voters in the poll said they were concerned that extremists will commit acts of violence after the election, an increase from the results of a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in May that showed 74% of voters having that fear.
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The Democrats will have to cheat big to have a chance of keeping PDJT out.
I hope our side is at least prepared to gather more evidence of them in the act this time.
We can debate endlessly on the details but bottom line...DONALD TRUMP! There is NO OTHER CHOICE!
I know that Reuters/Ipsos polls are tainted, but 43-41% for Trump is honestly depressing to see typed up.
Whenever The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate starts to get in trouble, their propaganda arm starts coming out with BS stories about how maybe the sky will fall, so let’s not look too hard at The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.
Let’s take a good, hard look at those crooks.
There is something bigger in the works from the party of death and evil. There is no limit to what they will do to retain power. Stay alert - be prepared.
Nah 43-41 is pretty damned good given Calif and NY are in the sample.
2020 was a 7Million vote lead. 5M was in Calif and 2M in NY and that added to 4.5%.
4.5% generated an extremely close battleground situation that was decided by a total of about 30,000 votes spread over 5 or 6 states.
A 2% lead is a 6% shift.
Gavin Newsom and Gretchen Whitmer are staying quiet.
ANTIFA/BLM/HAMAS will destroy blue cities on the day after the Election Day. But that's only because Joe Biden is letting them do that.
Just wait until their 2nd attempt
Not ‘sliding’, Active, present tense.
more like ‘has slidden’. Past tense.
For those of us who remember the late 60s and early 70s, what is coming won’t be so shocking, and I don’t mean demonstrations and protests, we remember the radical groups and the almost constant terrorist bombings, and serious confrontations between groups, and of course the burning cities which won’t be new again since we saw a lot of them just recently.
The only thing changed in my part of the country is high prices. No one looks worried. No one appears afraid. They all go about our life. If I lived in a liberal city, I might feel different.
The other 1 knows it is.
I think we’re already there. Too many nutball libtards without a lick of sense and their crazy zombie Antifa thugs
The other 20% are, certifiably, permanent sleep walkers...
Well said!
And we still have a window for preparing although, IMO, it's closing fast.
I give it until Labor Day.
Just a gut feeling.
Everyone with half a brain sees what is going on. Stolen elections 2020 2022 - shut down discourse-speech. Arrest any who protest. Use lawfare to attack threats to their power. When all else fails just kill your opponent! This stuff is getting old and people are not swallowing the bs.
“and serious confrontations between groups”
What groups? There was very little that I can remember. The Hell’s Angels attacked a peace march one time, and some hardhats in New York beat up some protesters once, a gun battle with the KKK, but other than that there weren’t any serious clashes that I can remember.
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