Quarter of Americans fear civil war could break out after the presidential election, new poll reveals
One in four Americans fears that a civil war could break out after the presidential election, according to a new poll.
A YouGov poll of 1,266 registered voters found that 84 percent of citizens believe America is more divided today than it was a decade ago.
Of the bipartisan voters surveyed for The times27 percent say they fear violence is “very or somewhat likely” after the vote for the next president in 11 days.
Twelve percent of respondents claimed to know someone who might “take up arms” if they thought Donald Trump was being “cheated” in an election victory. Five percent said they knew someone who would do the same for Kamala Harris.
The new poll follows a bombshell prediction that a psychological catastrophe could occur across the country if Trump beats Harris.
Twelve percent of respondents claimed to know someone who could “take up arms” if they thought Donald Trump (left, pictured Wednesday) would be “cheated” of an election victory. Five percent said they knew someone who would do the same for Kamala Harris (right, also on Wednesday)
The discussion about possible post-election conflict comes after hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 (photo)
Thirty percent of women and 24 percent of men on both sides of the political divide fear “likely violence” after the election, the survey found.
Voters believe the upcoming bid for the White House is “very likely” (6 percent) or “somewhat likely” (21 percent) to cause a second civil war.
Analysis found that nearly the same number of Harris (28 percent) and Trump supporters (27 percent) believe civil war is “somewhat likely.”
The survey also found that 32 percent believe civil war is “not very likely,” while 20 percent say it is “not at all likely.”
The discussion about possible post-election conflict comes after hundreds of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to delay the ratification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
Trump has continually promoted falsehoods about him Elections 2020 loss, with polls showing that up to a third of Americans believe Biden won through fraud.
The poll results come after journalist Mark Halperin joined Tucker Carlson on his show to predict what the post-election future could look like for America.
Halperin, author of several books on US elections and a reporter and host for Newsmax, told Carlson that Trump’s loss could result in a psychological catastrophe across the US.
Halperin, author of several books on US elections and currently a reporter for Newsmax, told Carlson that it could result in a psychological catastrophe across the country if Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris.
“I think this will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country,” he said, adding that liberals would question their “connection to the nation” and “suffer trauma in the workplace.”
Carlson replied, bewildered, “Are you serious?”
Halperin confirmed he was “100 percent serious” before making even more dire predictions about a second Trump term.
“I think there will be alcoholism, broken marriages… yes. “They think he’s the worst possible person to be president,” he said.
The former ABC, NBC and MSNBC reporter predicted violence everywhere from protests to average, everyday interactions between Americans after the election, should Trump win.
“I think there will be fights in the workplace, fights at kids’ birthday parties, I think there will be protests that will turn violent. I hope not, but I think there will be some,” Halperin said.
Earlier this month, Biden warned of the potential for the election’s aftermath to be violent when asked whether it would be free, fair and peaceful.
He was asked whether he had confidence that the elections would be free and fair and whether they would be peaceful.
Biden said these were “two separate questions.”
‘I am confident that it will be free and fair. I don’t know if it will be peaceful,” he replied.
Trump’s “enemy within” line can trace itself back to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. McCarthy invoked an unknown historical figure and said, “If a great democracy is destroyed, it will not be by enemies without, but rather by enemies within.”
Abraham Lincoln, in his 1838 Lyceum address, spoke of internal threats to the republic a generation before the Civil War, during a period of increasing mob violence.
‘At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer: if it ever reaches us, it must emerge among us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction is our destiny, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free people, we must survive all the time or we will die by suicide.”