85% of Americans Say Political Violence is Growing, But Democrats and Republicans Both Blame the ‘Other Side’

Charlie Nash Oct 23rd, 2025, 8:06 pm

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A whopping 85% of Americans said in a recent survey that political violence in the United States was growing, with Democrats and Republicans overwhelmingly blaming the “other side.”

According to a Pew Research poll , which surveyed nearly three-and-a-half thousand Americans following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month, 85% of those polled said that “politically motivated violence in this country” was on the increase. Just 3% of Americans said political violence was decreasing, while 12% said it had stayed roughly the same.

While Americans in total assigned equal blame to both

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