A Ukraine Freedom Project poll of Republican primary voters show that almost a quarter believe that Russia promotes family values, and that information is coming from conservative news personalities.
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Poll Brief: Russian Propaganda Among Republican Voters –
Russia Promotes Family Values
According to polling from the Ukraine Freedom Project, twenty-four percent of Republican primary voters agree with the statement “Russia is a country that promotes and encourages traditional family values.”
Russia is a country that uses rape as a weapon of war. Russian leaders boast about kidnapping more than 700,000 Ukrainian children. Russia has shut down every church in occupied Ukraine that is not affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church. Millions of believers in occupied Ukraine are forced to worship underground under threat of torture and imprisonment.
Even looking at this through the American lens of family values, Putin has outlined a classic pro-choice position.
Clearly, the idea that Russia promotes and encourages traditional family values is a false narrative.
American Foreign Policy Council research indicates that Russia spends as much as $2.4 billion worldwide on propaganda. Much of that is spent on the United States.
Ukraine Freedom Project polling from April 2024, the week after the Ukraine aid bill passed, shows Russian propagandists are targeting young men who vote Republican.
We surveyed Republican primary voters between April 22nd and 25th, the week after the most recent aid package for Ukraine passed the House of Representatives.
Republican voters aged 18-44 are the most likely demographic group to agree with this statement, with 37% in agreement. With a mean of 24%, this age group is more than half again more likely to believe that Russia is a country that promotes and encourages traditional family values. The polling skews male, as 34% of men aged 18-64 in agreement with this statement – ten points above the mean. Only 25% of women in that age range agree with that statement.
It is not hard to pinpoint the sources of this propaganda.
Those who get their news from Joe Rogan are 47% in agreement, almost twice the mean of 24%.
Tucker Carlson’s viewers agree at the rate of 38%.
Those who get their news from Candace Owens agree at a rate of 36%.
Republicans who have a favorable image of Marjorie Taylor Greene are 32% in agreement.
Those who have an unfavorable opinion of Speaker Johnson, who was an activist for the Baptist Church prior to joining Congress, agree that Russia promotes family values at 34%. This is not surprising given the leadership role that Johnson played in passing aid to Ukraine. Conversely, those who have a favorable opinion of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene see Russia as promoting family values at a rate of 32%.
Indicating the degree to which our adversaries are working together, users of TikTok believe at the rate of 35%, almost a third more than the mean.
Oddly enough, Snapchat users agree at the rate of 36%.
Viewers of One America News think Russia promotes family values at 33%, nine points above the mean of 24%.
Viewers of the much-maligned Fox News don’t diverge from the mean. Twenty-four percent of Fox News watchers agree that Russia promotes family values, the same rate as all Republican voters.
Viewers of the pro-Trump network NewsMax only agree at the rate of 19%, five points below the mean, among the least likely of any subgroup to agree. From our experience, NewsMax correspondents in Ukraine depict an accurate view of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Anecdotally, Shelby Wilder is a good friend and a classic war correspondent in the mold of Edward R. Murrow. She is not afraid of going to the front to get the story right.
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: “Russia is a country that promotes and encourages traditional family values.”
How to read this chart: The “Total Agree” column is a percentage of each subgroup of voters surveyed that agree with the statement “Russia is a country that promotes and encourages traditional family values.” The percent of all voters surveyed who agree with that statement is 24%. The column labeled “Above/Below the Mean” ind
icates the number of percentage points each subgroups deviates from the mean.
The Ukraine Freedom Project commissioned this survey from the respected Republican polling firm Public Opinion Strategies with n=600 likely GOP primary voters nationwide. The survey was fielded April 22-25, two days after the Ukraine aid bill passed the House of Representatives.
The Ukraine Freedom Project is a US-based 501c3 organization dedicated to telling Americans and the world about Ukraine with data-driven firsthand information. The Ukraine Freedom Project has also delivered some $3 million worth of goods to areas in Ukraine impacted by the war. Your donations to the Ukraine Freedom Project are tax deductible.
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This pinpoints the putinoid worms burrowing away inside the Republican Party. It seems from this that the ones doing the most damage are Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson, Candace “russian lives matter” Owens and of course Moscow Marge.
Guests on these dirtbags’ shows are interchangeable: Jordan Peterson, Tulsi Gabbard, Konstantin Kisin, Steve Bannon (who also has his own kremkrapper show), Dinesh D’Souza, Nigel Farage etc.
Owens got married at the Trump Winery. Guests included Eric Trump and Nigel Farage.
Extract from Owens wiki page :
“Owens has promoted a quote by Russian President Vladimir Putin, which included the false assertion that the USSR created the modern country of Ukraine. Her views have received support and amplification from the Embassy of Russia, Washington, D.C., particularly following her tweet stating “Russian lives matter” after the start of Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In March 2022, Owens faced criticism from historian Anne Applebaum for claiming that Ukraine “wasn’t a thing until 1989” and dismissing the notion of a Russian-led genocide in the country, prompting Applebaum to label Owens as ignorant of history. In December 2022, Owens faced backlash and fact-checking on social media after making unfounded claims about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s wife Olena Zelenska, with Twitter users debunking her allegations and highlighting the lack of evidence.”
Owens and Carlson are not “ignorant of history”, they are something far more sinister. For large numbers of their gullible and stupid fans, they manipulate and reframe history to suit their pro-kremlin lies.
These lies are not harmless; they are contributing to the deaths of Ukrainian servicemen and ruZZian genocide of Ukrainian civilians.
That $3 billion putinaZi propaganda budget is money well-spent for the rat nazi and his murder gang.
“A Ukraine Freedom Project poll of Republican primary voters show that almost a quarter believe that Russia promotes family values, and that information is coming from conservative news personalities.”
Mixing fascism with family values makes you a what? That’s right, a full-blown idiot.
I will refrain from making comments about Carlsov and Owensov. They both propagate fascist doctrines from their bread giver, Vlad the Impaler, and people who are not full-blown idiots know this already.
Reagan Republicans like Steven Moore, Liz Cheney, Roger Wicker, Mitt Romney etc, seem to be on the verge of extinction.
It would appear that only a heavy defeat of the GOP’s putler wing can bring them back to life.
I predict that these wannabe Republicans will die and fade away when their fascist boss finally goes to hell.