Opinion: How Trump's Jan. 6 lies really worked, in one chart

Opinion: How Trump's Jan. 6 lies really worked, in one chart
- January 7, 2022
- Michael Tesler, poli sci, MSNBC, Jan, 7, 2022 (Opinion)
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As Michael Tesler, a political [science professor] at the University of California, Irvine who wrote about the survey data for FiveThirtyEight, noted, McConnell’s net favorability among a majority of Republicans “plummeted after he officially recognized Biden as the president-elect in mid-December, but his net favorability nosedived even further after he sharply rebuked Trump’s baseless ‘conspiracy theories’ during his Jan. 6 address to Congress.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/opinion/trump-democracy-voting-jan-6.html.
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