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Poll shows Americans think a political candidate will get assassinated soon
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Poll shows Americans think a political candidate will get assassinated soon.
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A new poll finds Americans fear political violence,
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with over half expecting a candidate's assassination within five years.
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A Politico and Public First survey found 53% of 2024 Kamala Harris voters
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and 51% of Trump voters expect a political assassination soon.
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Conducted after the September assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk,
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the poll found 61% of Harris voters and 50% of MAGA voters foresee more attacks.
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And 24% say political violence is sometimes justified, rising to over one-third under 45.
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The findings mirror an October NPR-PBS News Marist poll,
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showing 28% of Democrats and 31% of Republicans,
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think political violence may be necessary to get the country back on track.
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At least 300 cases of political violence occurred between the January 6th insurrection and the 2024 election,
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the largest surge since the 1970s, according to a 2024 Reuters analysis.
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Targets included both parties, from multiple shooting attempts against Trump during his campaign
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to an April firebombing against Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
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A 2023 Center for Strategic and International Studies report found nearly three times as many
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partisan-driven attacks and plots since 2016 as in the previous 25 years.
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While many in the Trump administration have sought to blame the left for escalating tensions,
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experts say the roots of the violence are complex.
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There's also been an injection of violence directly into our political process itself,
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said Shane Burley, an author and journalist who studies fascism and right-wing movements.
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Whether it's the Trump administration sending masked ICE agents and National Guardsmen
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into largely Democratic cities to carry out immigration enforcement,
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or the increasingly common presence of armed militiamen and ideological street gangs at protests.
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People engage in violence when they are not part of a stable social system.
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Gun violence is really a symptom of a real, larger social problem
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that you're going to have to deal with holistically.
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And that's really unfortunate because we are nowhere near dealing with those problems
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in a holistic way, Burley added.
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