As I have said multiple times, the primary goal of the January 6th Committee's publicly televised hearings is simple: to make the case to America for charging Donald Trump with criminal acts in connection with the effort to annul Joe Biden's win and to defraud America with a slate of illegitimate electors.
The latest ABC News poll finds that the hearings are working even better than I expected.
With the first full week of hearings for the House select committee's investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol now complete, nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the incident, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll finds.
Six in 10 Americans also believe the committee is conducting a fair and impartial investigation, according to the poll.
In the poll, which was conducted by Ipsos in partnership with ABC News using Ipsos' KnowledgePanel, 58% of Americans think Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the riot. That's up slightly from late April, before the hearings began, when an ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 52% of Americans thought the former president should be charged.
An ABC News/Washington Post poll that asked a similar question days after the attack in January 2021 found that 54% of Americans thought Trump should be charged with the crime of inciting a riot.
Attitudes on whether Americans think Trump is responsible for the attack on the U.S. Capitol remain relatively stable. In the new ABC News/Ipsos poll, 58% of Americans think Trump bears a "great deal" or a "good amount" of responsibility for the attack on the Capitol. This is unchanged from an ABC News/Ipsos poll in December 2021 and similar to the findings of an ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted just after the attack in January 2021.
The poll divides along party lines, with 91% of Democrats thinking Trump should be charged with a crime compared to 19% of Republicans. On whether Trump bears a "great deal" or a "good amount" of responsibility for the attack, 91% of Democrats and 21% of Republicans say he does.
Among self-described independents, 62% think Trump should be charged and 61% think he bears a "great deal" or a "good amount" of responsibility.
Again, a majority of Americans believe Trump should be charged. The country is not "tuning out boring hearings" like Republicans want you to believe...and even one in five Republicans think Trump should be indicted. That's about twice as much as I was expecting, meaning the hearings are changing some Republican minds as well.
More hearings are scheduled for Tuesday. More people are watching and paying attention.
That's a good thing, because even Republicans believe more violence is coming.
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