Poll: Most Americans Think Democracy Is Under Serious Threat
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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This episode: White House correspondent Deepa Shivaram, senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro, and senior national political correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:18.3 | I'm currently sitting in a hotel in Japan, catching up on American politics |
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| 0:29.0 | This podcast was recorded at 1.21 p.m. on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025. |
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| 0:56.5 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Deepa Shiverom. I cover the White House. |
| 1:00.1 | I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent. |
| 1:02.9 | And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent. |
| 1:05.7 | And today on the show, Americans are still worried about the state of democracy. That's according to the latest NPR PBS News, Marist poll out this week. |
| 1:14.9 | So, Domenico, I want to start there. |
| 1:17.0 | What does this poll say about how Americans feel about a very American thing? |
| 1:21.7 | Yeah, well, three quarters of people say that democracy, they believe, is under serious threat. |
| 1:25.9 | That included almost 9 and ten Democrats, |
| 1:29.0 | 80% of independence, and a majority of Republicans, three quarters also described politically |
| 1:34.4 | motivated violence in this country as a major problem. So we're seeing a lot of people really feel |
| 1:40.7 | like on this Fourth of July week that they don't have a lot of confidence in the |
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