Table 5. Beliefs concerning QAnon and biblical “end times,” by study group.
| Statement | Republicans | Non-Republicans | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAGA Republicans* | Strong Republicans | Other Republicans | ||||||
| Unweighted n | Weighted % (95% CI) | Unweighted n | Weighted % (95% CI) | Unweighted n | Weighted % (95% CI) | Unweighted n | Weighted % (95% CI) | |
| The government, media, and financial worlds in the U.S. are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation. | ||||||||
| Do not agree | 550 | 46.7 (43.5, 50.0) | 547 | 83.6 (80.2, 86.9) | 1302 | 79.8 (77.4, 82.2) | 3471 | 85.7 (84.3, 87.1) |
| Somewhat agree | 285 | 26.6 (23.7, 29.5) | 60 | 11.0 (8.1, 13.8) | 182 | 13.7 (11.7, 15.7) | 259 | 8.7 (7.5, 9.8) |
| Strongly or very strongly agree | 269 | 26.7 (23.7, 29.7) | 29 | 5.4 (3.3, 7.5) | 80 | 6.5 (4.9, 8.0) | 157 | 5.6 (4.6, 6.6) |
| There is a storm coming soon that will sweep away the elites in power and restore the rightful leaders. | ||||||||
| Do not agree | 399 | 35.6 (32.4, 38.7) | 449 | 70.1 (66.1, 74.0) | 1195 | 74.6 (72.2, 77.1) | 3175 | 78.9 (77.3, 80.4) |
| Somewhat agree | 392 | 34.9 (31.8, 37.9) | 147 | 22.9 (19.4, 26.5) | 290 | 19.7 (17.4, 21.9) | 504 | 14.8 (13.5, 16.1) |
| Strongly or very strongly agree | 320 | 29.6 (26.5, 32.6) | 38 | 7.0 (4.6, 9.4) | 76 | 5.7 (4.3, 7.1) | 192 | 6.3 (5.4, 7.3) |
| The chaos in America today is evidence that we are living in what the Bible calls “the end times.” | ||||||||
| Do not agree | 327 | 28.3 (25.4, 31.2) | 326 | 49.6 (45.3, 53.8) | 884 | 54.6 (51.8, 57.3) | 2730 | 67.1 (65.4, 68.8) |
| Somewhat agree | 386 | 33.9 (30.8, 36.9) | 192 | 29.4 (25.6, 33.3) | 465 | 30.3 (27.8, 32.9) | 698 | 19.0 (17.6, 20.5) |
| Strongly or very strongly agree | 401 | 37.8 (34.6, 41.0) | 121 | 21.0 (17.4, 24.6) | 215 | 15.1 (13.0, 17.2) | 470 | 13.9 (12.6, 15.2) |
* Denotes self-identified Republicans who voted for Donald Trump in 2020 and agreed strongly or very strongly with the statement that “the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump, and Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.”