CNN Realizes Two Months Too Late That Americans Don’t Care About January 6th Anymore

CNN Anchor John Berman and data guru Harry Enten laid out the polling that proved, despite the repeated insistence of many Democrats and media talking heads, the American people just weren’t all that concerned with blaming President-elect Donald Trump for the Capitol riot.

The two hashed out the details during Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” where Enten laid out the polling data from immediately after January 6th, 2021 — and then compared it to the polling data from 2023 and 2024, going into the 2024 presidential election.

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CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten revealed Monday that American voters’ focus on the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot significantly waned during the 2024 presidential election cycle.

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Enten began with the percentage of voters who believed that Trump was primarily responsible for the riot that took place on Capitol Hill that day — and that he should be either removed from office or barred from re-election because of it.

“If you go back, you know, four years ago, right? Trump’s role on January 6, 2021, should make him ineligible to be president, the clear majority of voters said yes, 56%,” Enten said, noting that they had also said he should be removed from office at that time.

“But of course, Donald Trump won the presidency, and part of the reason why was because views on Trump completely shifted, including Trump’s role on January 6,” he continued, noting that after three years had passed, the number of people who believed Trump should be ineligible for the presidency because of January 6th had fallen to 47%.

“So we saw this drop of about 9 points, and that of course makes all the difference in the world. And that, of course, is all the difference in the world, going from a majority to short of a majority,” Enten added. “And of course, Donald Trump won the vast, vast, vast, vast, vast majority of the other 53% who did not believe that his role on January 6th would make him ineligible for the post.”

Berman questioned the reason behind that shift, and Enten noted that over that same time period, the number of voters who primarily blamed Trump for the riot had also dropped from 48% to 37% by the time the election picked up.

“Look at that again, a clear shift down to 37%. This is an 11-point drop, very much mirroring that drop that we saw that the folks at that, of course, would make him ineligible for the presidency. So that is part of the reason why,” Enten explained. “Folks, fewer folks thought he was responsible, greatly responsible for what happened on January 6th.”

But the kicker, Enten said, was that fact that people just weren’t as focused on the riot as a major event: “It’s not just that. It’s that people, simply put, didn’t care as much about the attack on the Capitol.”

When asked whether January 6th was their “biggest memory of Trump’s first term in office,” only five percent said that it was in 2024. Among Republicans, that number was just two percent, according to Enten.

“So the bottom line is fewer Americans fault Donald Trump or thought he was greatly responsible for the January 6th attack. And more than that, as it went into the rearview mirror, far fewer folks thought that it was their number one memory,” Enten concluded.

“And this is an extraordinary number given that President Biden, when he was still in the election, was really putting this as his main issue,” Berman observed. “That never really was registering.”