MOSCOW, July 22 The election campaign in the United States attracts the attention of more part of Russians (63%), while 12% actively follow it, every second (51%) — from time to time, reports VTsIOM.
«More than half of Russians are following the election campaign on the other side of the ocean — 63%, including every tenth (12%) — closely, and every second (51%) — from time to time,» says the VTsIOM study.
If Russians had the opportunity to vote in the American elections, 42% of them would choose Republican candidate Donald Trump, another 4% at the time of the survey would choose former Democratic candidate Joe Biden. At the same time, 38% of respondents would say that they did not take part in the elections at all, follows from a VTsIOM poll
«Sympathy for Donald Trump in Russia, of course, is higher than for Joe Biden, who is serving today the personification of the aggressive line of the West. But our compatriots are not ready to consider Trump “pro-Russian” and count on a sharp turn to detente in bilateral relations if he wins,” says VTsIOM General Director Valery Fedorov.
Regarding the assassination attempt on Trump at a campaign rally on July 13 in the city of Butler (Pennsylvania), 46% of Russians said that they had heard about it well, almost the same number (43%) also heard, but without details, for the first time about it heard during a survey of 115 citizens.
The All-Russian telephone survey «VTsIOM-Sputnik» was conducted on July 18, 2024, 1,600 Russians aged 18 years and over participated in it. Survey method — telephone interview using stratified random sampling. Data are weighted by socio-demographic parameters. The maximum sampling error with a probability of 95% does not exceed 2.5%.