Trump's Jan. 6 pardons split the GOP: From the Politics Desk

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Given the unparalleled sway Trump holds with Republicans, a seamless, Trump-blessed elevation of Vance to the top of the 2028 GOP ticket is conceivable.
41% : There were those who did not vocally criticize Trump but declined to support the decision.
41% : What Trump is saying: He defended the Jan. 6 pardons during a news conference Tuesday, Katherine Doyle reports.
40% : And Trump himself seems to have a fondness for Vance that he never expressed toward Mike Pence, his previous VP.
34% : With the stroke of a pen, Trump issued pardons to roughly 1,500 criminal defendants and commuted the sentences of 14 others in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
26% : I will not defend it," said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D.Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said that if he were president he would not have offered pardons to people who committed violence on Jan. 6, but he added that Trump followed through on his campaign promise.
25% : "They've served years in jail," Trump said in response to questions from reporters at the White House on why he pardoned violent offenders.

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