Trump Won the Presidency -- and the Narrative About January 6

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

84% : Trump recasted January 6 as a "day of love."
48% : "Trump would, indeed, win -- both the presidency and, by extension, the narrative around January 6, which he'll now be able to whitewash from the bully pulpit.
46% : "Corporations wanted to be counted out, too: Big business briefly turned a cold shoulder to the GOP, and for good reason: Most Americans in polls held Trump responsible for the Capitol attack, and more than half in a Pew poll said it would be better for the country if he were removed and replaced with Pence for the remainder of the term.
37% : But it also speaks to the relentless MAGA messaging around the Capitol attack: Trump and his allies have spent four years trying to rewrite the history of the January 6 insurrection, and with his inauguration two weeks away, it's clear that to some extent they have.
37% : And so Trump entered Biden's term in a kind of soft exile down in Mar-a-Lago, where began rebuilding his 2024 viability.
36% : Trump, constrained in his first term by more establishment figures and done in politically by a pandemic that threw his unfitness into stark relief, has roared back into power.
27% : Trump, it seemed, was at his lowest point politically.
26% : But the GOP, including some of the same lawmakers who could appreciate Trump's culpability, once again ran cover: Mitch McConnell, who said that Trump was "practically and morally responsible" for the insurrection during Trump's second impeachment, wouldn't go on vote to convict, because he believed Trump was "constitutionally not eligible for conviction" after leaving office.
25% : No, Trump won via popular referendum, because the majority of the voting public didn't see the indelible stain of that day of it as a dealbreaker.
19% : And while Democrats warned the public about Trump's attempts at revisionism -- that he was "trying to steal history the same way he tried to steal an election," as Biden said -- the party appeared to take for granted the prospect that simply muddying the waters could be enough for Trump to come out victorious.
14% : While 147 Capitol Hill Republicans would still vote against the certification of Joe Biden's win, many other Republicans expressed frustration with Trump.

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