Axios: “More than one-third of Americans think it’s possible that elites in Hollywood, government and the media ‘are secretly engaging in large scale child trafficking and abuse,’ according to new polling for a U.K.-based anti-racism advocacy group reviewed by Axios. The big picture: New findings by the group HOPE not Hate show 1 in 10 Americans say they are at least ‘soft’ supporters of the QAnon conspiracy theory movement and suggest that distrust in U.S. political systems could fuel further unrest in a fraught election year.”
“1 in 4 agree it would be ‘perfectly acceptable’ for President Trump to refuse to accept the election results if they’re close. QAnon proponents tend to support Trump, and they’ve been pushing a narrative that voting by mail is a scheme by Democrats to steal the election. The findings about Americans’ openness to conspiracy theories about child trafficking and abuse suggest that a large subset of Americans may believe in some of the major conspiracies of QAnon even if they don’t embrace the group by name.”