United States: a year after the attack on the Capitol, the camps have not budged

Washington, January 6, 2021. AP - Jose Luis Magana

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The United States is preparing to commemorate the attack on Capitol Hill, which took place on January 6, 2021. Next Thursday, for the first anniversary, President Biden will speak and ceremonies are planned in Congress.

The majority of American opinion is worried about the state of democracy in the country, but not always for the same reasons.

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With our correspondent in Washington,

64% is the share of Americans who think their country's democracy is at risk of failing.

A large majority, therefore, but for very different reasons.

This Ipsos poll for the national public radio explains that it is especially the Republican voters who have this feeling.

Because two-thirds of them believe that voter fraud helped Joe Biden win, and less than half of them are willing to acknowledge the result, a proportion that hasn't moved much since. a year.

Democrats are worried too, but for other reasons.

They cite more the laws passed in some states to restrict access to the vote.

This fracture is found in another study, carried out by the University of Maryland for the daily newspaper

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The perception of the violence of the January 6 rioters is very different between Democrats and Republicans.

The latter are also 40% to judge that violence against the government is sometimes justified.

Political violence on the occasion of the next elections is the fear of people interviewed by YouGov for the CBS channel.

62% of those polled expect violence from the losing side after the future presidential elections.

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