Surprise! Americans identify ‘biggest threat’ to democracy

Summary (IA Generated)

Children recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Aug.

Fifty-four percent of those surveyed said that “other people in America” posed the largest threat to the nation, beating out “economic forces,” “natural world, disasters and viruses” and “foreign threats.

Fifty-one percent of Americans surveyed also said that political violence would increase in the next few years, while only 18% said that it would decrease.

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The poll also indicated that Americans were cautiously optimistic about President-elect Joe Biden taking office.

Fifty-one percent said that the coronavirus would get better once he took office, compared to 22% who said that it would get worse, and 48% said that the world would have greater respect for the United States compared to 34% who said the opposite.

Twenty-one percent said that Biden’s top priority should be the economy, and 10% said that it should be “political divisions.

Fifty-nine percent of those surveyed also said that vaccine distribution in their respective states was moving too slowly, compared to just 9% who said that it was moving too quickly.

Forty-two percent said that Biden’s biggest challenge once taking office would be to overcome the political divisions in the country, a figure that was reflected later in the poll.

This story originally was published by the Daily Caller News Foundation.