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Questions - Political Violence - April 27-29, 2026

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National Survey of 1,076 U.S. Likely Voters
Conducted April 27-29, 2026

By Rasmussen Reports

 

1* Does the way most news media report about politics tend to make America more united or more divided?

 

 

2* Saturday night, a gunman was arrested after he tried to rush into the Hilton Hotel ballroom where President Donald Trump was attending an event hosted by the White House Correspondents Association. How likely is it that negative news media coverage of Trump inspired this assassination attempt?

 

 

3* Is the problem of political violence in America getting worse or better? Or has the political violence problem stayed about the same?

 

 

NOTE: Margin of Sampling Error, +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence