{"id":25693,"date":"2024-04-05T04:04:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25693"},"modified":"2024-04-05T04:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T09:04:24","slug":"a-fifth-of-adults-say-violence-needed-to-get-nation-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=25693","title":{"rendered":"A fifth of adults say violence needed to get nation on track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">About 20% of U.S. adults said Americans may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track, according to an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/polls\/april-2024-presidential-election\/\"><u>NPR\/PBS NewsHour\/Marist<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;poll released Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">While the vast majority of Americans surveyed disagree with that premise, some see violence as a path to secure political priorities in 2024, according to the poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Some 6% strongly agreed that Americans may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track. Another 13% agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">About 46% of adults strongly disagreed that violence was needed and another 33% disagreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">More Americans said America has gotten so far off track that the nation needs a leader who is willing to break some rules to set things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">About 41% of adults either agreed or strongly agreed with that statement. Some 59% disagreed or strongly disagreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The poll, which surveyed 1,305 adults, was conducted from March 25 through March 28 by the Marist Poll sponsored in partnership with NPR and PBS NewsHour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/nation\/states\/center-square\/fifth-adults-say-violence-needed-get-nation-track\">Justthenews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20% of U.S. adults said Americans may have to resort to violence to get the country back on track, according to an&nbsp;NPR\/PBS NewsHour\/Marist&nbsp;poll released Wednesday. While the vast majority of Americans surveyed disagree with that premise, some see violence as a path to secure political priorities in 2024, according to the poll. Some 6% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[27656,2647,3004,2033],"class_list":["post-25693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-american-adults","tag-country","tag-polls","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25695,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25693\/revisions\/25695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}