Republicans are standing by their man

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     January 4, 2024 Do you consider Donald Trump to be a "person of faith"? I'll take a wild guess here (based on my knowledge of Mother Jones readers) and assume...no. But if you're a Republican, a negative response would put you in your party's minority: 64 percent of Republicans consider Trump a "person of faith," according to the [results]( of a new Deseret News/HarrisX poll, one of two polls out this week that show the extent to which Republicans are standing by their man. The other poll, conducted by the [Washington Post-University of Maryland](, found that Republicans today are more likely to be sympathetic to Trump regarding his involvement in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, compared to the week after the insurrection: Fourteen percent of GOP respondents said last month that Trump bears a great or good amount of responsibility for the deadly insurrection, compared to 27 percent who said the same nearly three years ago. Another stark finding: only 31 percent of Republicans surveyed said they believe President Biden was legitimately elected in 2020, compared to 39 percent in 2021—and, overall, 36 percent of Americans don’t accept Biden’s presidency as legitimate. “From a historical perspective, these results would be chilling to many analysts,” Michael J. Hanmer, director of the Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement at the University of Maryland, [told]( the Post. To read more about the findings of the new polls, check out our story below. There's one other thing it seems most voters, regardless of party, agree on: 70 percent of Americans don’t think Trump will accept the results of this year’s election, the Post found, should he lose. —Julianne McShane Advertisement [House Subscriptions Ad]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [Republicans Are Standing by Their Man]( They also think he's a "person of faith." BY JULIANNE MCSHANE MOJO MUST-READS BY DANIEL SCHULMAN   The Money Kings: The Epic Story of the Jewish Immigrants Who Transformed Wall Street and Shaped Modern America The incredible saga of the German-Jewish immigrants—with now familiar names like Goldman and Sachs, Kuhn and Loeb, Warburg and Schiff, Lehman and Seligman—who profoundly influenced the rise of modern finance, from New York Times best-selling author Daniel Schulman. [Get The Money Kings here.]( [Trending] [Electric vehicles just became more affordable]( BY GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA   [Federal agency accuses SpaceX of illegally firing employees for criticizing Elon Musk]( BY ARIANNA COGHILL   [Excessive heat and air pollution are putting farmworkers’ lives at risk]( BY LIZA GROSS AND PETER ALDHOUS   [Americans are stockpiling abortion pills…just in case]( BY JULIANNE MCSHANE Advertisement [House Bookshop Ad]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [A tearful farewell to the 21 species we declared extinct in 2023]( “I thought about how I would grieve for a friend." BY MAANVI SINGH [Fiercely Independent] Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755