68% of Fox News Viewers Blame Jan. 6 on Left-Wing Protesters

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A whopping 68% of Fox News viewers blame the Jan. 6 attack on “Left-wing protesters hoping to make Trump glimpse undesirable,” the most of any viewership group by just about double.

Respondents to a new Yahoo! News/YouGov poll, had been requested “How significantly are each of the pursuing to blame for the January 6 assault on the Capitol?”

Between all respondents, the the very least-well-known response was “Left wing protesters making an attempt to make Trump appear bad” with 43 p.c expressing they have been to blame either “a great deal” or “some” for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

But in prolonged crosstabs for that poll, 68% of Fox Information viewers mentioned that “Left wing protesters trying to make Trump seem bad” had been to blame possibly “a excellent deal” or “some” for the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

That is far more than double the 32% of CNN viewers and 25% of MSNBC viewers who say remaining-wing protesters were to blame both “a wonderful deal” or “some” for the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol. 37% of respondents who “don’t watch” any of the networks claimed the exact same.

Fox viewers had been also the very least probable to say that then-President Donald Trump “is most to blame for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol?”, when MSNBC viewers ended up most probable to say so. Trump was also the major decide for most blame amid all respondents.

Yahoo’s Andrew Romano writes that differences in cable information viewership shade perceptions of the hearings drastically:

Only 50 % of Individuals (50%) report observing the hearings reside or catching news protection afterwards, about the exact percentage that paid consideration to the committee’s initial prime-time hearing previously this thirty day period. And far more Biden voters (78%) go on to check out both are living or later on than Trump voters (35%).

As a end result, public viewpoint on concerns such as whether or not Trump “pressured the U.S. Division of Justice to declare that the 2020 election was ‘illegal’ and ‘corrupt’ — a declare that was first described very last year and corroborated by senior office officials during past Thursday’s listening to — still may differ wildly by viewing behavior. Very clear majorities of MSNBC viewers (82%), CNN viewers (61%) and stay-hearing viewers (78%) say they consider it sizable figures of Fox News viewers (30%) and People in america who do not enjoy cable information (40%) or the hearings (45%) say they’re not sure.

Fox News did not have the very first hearing reside, despite the fact that their newscasters did address the proceedings on the decrease-rated Fox Organization Network.

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