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As of Feb 18, WaPo says merely 14% of US adults overall support pardoning people convicted of violent crimes (and only 32% of Republicans).

For nonviolent pardons, 42% overall support it (and 76% of Republicans).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-pol...

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There's the abstract, and the concrete.

If you ask those same Republicans if they would pardon a violent offender who committed crimes in an attempt to defend Trump's claims of victory on January 6, you would get a very different answer.

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