A year since supporters of former President Donald Trump attacked the Capitol, Americans are split over how to describe what happened on Jan. 6, 2021.
A new poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist finds that roughly half of U.S. adults say an insurrection took place that threatened democracy, and about as many say Trump is to blame for those events.
But many Americans have embraced a different narrative about that day, especially when looking along party lines, with 80 percent of Republicans either thinking the events of Jan. 6 were a legitimate act of dissent or should be put aside as something that occured in the past. CONTINUED
Laura Santhanam, PBS NewsHour
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