According to a new poll, 73% of Trump supporters believe Democrats are attempting to replace white Americans with immigrants and people of color in order to gain more votes.
An 18-year-old white gunman who shot 10 black individuals at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, cited the so-called “Great Replacement Theory.”
‘Do you personally believe that in the United States, Democrats are attempting to replace white Americans with immigrants and people of color who share Democrats’ views?’ asked voters in a new YouGov poll.
Seventy-three percent of Trump supporters said yes, but only 8% of Biden supporters said yes. The question was answered yes by 61 percent of Republicans, 10% of Democrats, and 33% of Independents.
‘Do you personally believe that in the United States, Jewish people are attempting to replace white Americans with immigrants and people of color who share Jewish people’s views?’ the survey further asked.
Only 12% of Trump supporters said yes, while only 7% of Biden supporters said yes.
House Democrats, lead by Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., introduced a resolution condemning the great replacement hypothesis on Wednesday.
Bowman, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and other top Democrats convened a news conference on Wednesday afternoon to discuss their plans.
‘Nazi thinking veiled as political banter can no longer go unrecognized,’ Bowman told reporters outside the Capitol.
‘These are no longer marginal aspects of our society,’ he said, referring to the theory’s popularity polls. Thanks to right-wing Republicans like Tucker Carlson, who has stated the Great Replacement Hypothesis over 400 times, the theory has gone mainstream.’
The House is preparing to vote on a slew of gun-control bills, one of which includes a resolution denouncing great replacement theory as a flawed theory.
‘White supremacist conspiracy theory’ and reaffirming the House’s commitment to ‘combating White supremacy, hatred, and racial injustice.’
The resolution passed on a party line vote 217-205.
A separate poll of 1,500 Americans conducted by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) found that about 7 in 10 Republicans agreed to some extent that demographic changes in the U.S. are intentionally driven by liberal politicians looking for more votes.
Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, has been chastised for campaign commercials that opponents believe mimic the theory.
Joe Biden was featured wearing his iconic aviator sunglasses in Stefanik’s Facebook ads, with scores of migrants pictured in their reflections walking toward him.
‘Democrats are planning their most aggressive attempt yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,’ according to Stefanik’s ad copy.
‘Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington,’ the ad continues on to say.
The New York representative, who is the No. 3 GOP lawmaker in the House, on Monday called the claims by media and adversaries ‘disgraceful, dishonest and dangerous’.
The woman she replaced for GOP Conference Chairwoman, Liz Cheney, is also claiming that Republican leadership is contributing to the enabling of radical white supremacist views on the far-right.
‘Any implication or attempt to blame the heinous shooting in Buffalo on the Congresswoman is a new disgusting low for the Left, their Never Trump allies, and the sycophant stenographers in the media,’ Stefanik’s Senior Advisor Alex DeGrasse said in a statement on Monday.
He added: ‘Despite sickening and false reporting, Congresswoman Stefanik has never advocated for any racist position or made a racist statement.’
Some believe Stefanik and others encouraged this conspiracy idea as a result of their pro-national security and anti-illegal immigration feelings and language in the face of record-breaking migration numbers over the last year and a half.
Stefanik addressed the problem in a tweet on Monday, which one of his Republican colleagues, Illinois’ Adam Kinzinger, felt was badly timed.
‘Democrats desperately want wide open borders and mass amnesty for illegals allowing them to vote,’ Stefanik tweeted as the country braces for the end of Title 42 and numbers released this week could show another increase in illegal encounters.
‘Like the vast majority of Americans, Republicans want to secure our borders and protect election integrity,’ Stefanik added.
Kinzinger responded to the tweet with: ‘Badly timed.’