Just over half of Americans think President-elect Donald Trump believes Adolf Hitler was a good person, according to a recent poll published by YouGov on November 4.
The poll surveyed 1077 Americans on November 1 about a range of topics and was weighted according to gender, age, race, education, 2020 election turnout, presidential vote, baseline party identification, and current voter registration status.
Some 54% of Americans think Trump believes Hitler was a good person, while only 20% think Trump believes Hitler was a bad person.
The difference was split along party lines, with 73% of Democrats thinking Trump believed Hitler was good, while only 49% of independents and 41% of Republicans said the same.
Republicans were far more likely to say Trump believes Hitler was a bad person at 38%.
Only 20% of Americans think Kamala Harris believes Hitler was a good person, while 50% think she believes he was a bad person.
What do Americans think of Hitler?
Most Americans think Hitler was a bad person at 65%, with majorities across the party lines, with Democrats at 75%, Republicans at 60%, and Independents at 59%.
Conversely, 23% of Americans think Hitler was a good person, with Democrats at 18%, Independents at 20%, and Republicans at 33%.
A slight majority (54%) of Americans would not vote for a candidate who said Hitler did some good things, while 24% said they still would.
Three-quarters (75%) of Democrats said they wouldn’t vote for a candidate who said Hitler did some good things, while half (50%) of independents and 39% of Republicans said the same.
This article was originally published at www.jpost.com
