The latest Rasmussen Poll shockingly shows just that shy of half of Democrats polled “could not bring themselves to say that America would not be better off if the opposing party’s candidate for president had been assassinated.”
The poll shows that 28% of Democrats polled said that America ‘would have been better’ off if Trump had been assassinated and another 24% of Democrats said they were ‘not sure’.
“Scott Rasmussen, president of RMG Research, said, “It is hard to imagine a greater threat to democracy than expressing a desire to have your political opponent murdered.” And, yet Democrat operatives and much of the mainstream media constantly parrot that it is former President Trump who is a threat.
This poll reveals that a concerning number of Americans, Democrats in particular, have come to a place in the nation’s political discourse where not just violence against a political opponent is acceptable and perhaps even desired, but that it would be better for the country as a whole.
Rasmussen said when asked about the overall sentiment the poll revealed, “I continue to believe that America’s best days are still to come. However, for years I’ve been saying that things will get worse before they get better. These numbers suggest that the phase of getting worse is clearly upon us.”
The number of ‘all-party’ registrants that answered ‘yes’ to “Would America be better off if Donald Trump had been killed last weekend?” was 17% But, when you break out registered the Democrats alone, the number agreeing that a successful assassination would have been better for the country goes up to 28%.
No matter how you look at it, whether it’s 17% or 28%, the percentage of Americans who maintain a position that political assassinations are good for our country is astonishing.
According to the survey, “Despite these incidents, more than half of Democrats (51 percent) stated they did not see a need to increase Trump's security detail.”