Only 22 percent of Americans say they support the protesters. Despite Trump’s messaging, even Republicans oppose the protests 47 percent to 36 percent.
An overwhelming majority of Americans, Republicans included, are rejecting right-wing protests — encouraged by President Trump — to immediately “reopen” the country in the midst of the world’s largest and deadliest coronavirus outbreak, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
Asked whether they agree or disagree with Trump’s “LIBERATE” tweets, only a quarter of Americans say they agree.The margins aren’t close. Seventy-one percent of Americans — and 56 percent of Republicans — say they are more concerned about lifting the coronavirus restrictions too quickly than lifting them too slowly. Only 29 percent of Americans say the opposite.
Story continuesThe reason, according to the poll, is that nearly 90 percent of Americans think a resurgence of coronavirus cases would be either “very” or “somewhat” likely if lockdown ended today. Overall, 79 percent continue to say that stay-at-home orders are “the only way to stop the spread of COVID-19”; only 21 percent say “the cure is worse than the disease.
Overall, 65 percent of Americans say that Trump could have reduced the damage done by the coronavirus — either “a lot” or “somewhat” — if he had acted sooner.
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