Most Republicans support President Donald Trump’s claim that both sides were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to a SurveyMonkey poll Friday on Axios.
The poll asked if voters agreed with this Trump quote: "You had a group on one side that was bad, and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent."
- 87 percent of Republican voters agreed and 11 percent disagreed;
- 83 percent of Democrats disagreed and 15 percent agreed;
- 59 percent of independents disagreed and 39 percent agreed;
- 53 percent of voters overall, regardless of party, disagreed, while 43 percent agreed.
A partisan divide was apparent regarding whom to blame for the violence.
- 64 percent of Republicans believe both sides were to blame, with 18 percent blaming the far right alone, and 17 percent blaming the counter-protesters;
- 66 percent of Democrats believed the far right was to blame, with 24 percent blaming both sides and only 6 percent blaming the counter-protesters;
- 51 percent of independent voters blamed the far right, with 38 percent believing both sides share the blame and 8 percent blaming the counter-protesters;
- 46 percent of voters overall, regardless of party, blamed the far right, while 40 percent put blame on both sides and 9 percent blamed the counter-protesters.
The SurveyMonkey poll had 2,181 respondents, the Axios report said.