Poll: 82 percent of voters support a national face mask mandate

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A vast majority of voters support the idea of a national mask mandate, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds.

Eighty-two percent of registered voters in the July 26-27 survey said they'd support a national mandate to wear facial coverings, including 61 percent who "strongly" back the idea and 21 percent who "somewhat" support it.

Only 18 percent of voters oppose a national mandate on masks.

The idea has bipartisan support with 93 percent of Democratic voters, 85 percent of independents and 66 percent of Republicans endorsing it.

"The idea of a national face mask mandate is supported by an overwhelming majority of voters and is less of a partisan issue than you would think," Dritan Nesho, chief researcher and CEO at HarrisX, told Hill.TV.

"Two-thirds of Republicans and over eight in 10 independents and nine in 10 Democrats are in favor of it," Nesho added.

The Hill-HarrisX poll was conducted online among 948 registered voters between July 26 and 27. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.18 percentage points.

AbeLincolnsFreckles on August 4th, 2020 at 00:15 UTC »

That's actually a huge relief to me, because based on the posts I see on Facebook, it seemed like 82% of people think masks will kill you via hypoxemia.

mnorthwood13 on August 3rd, 2020 at 20:57 UTC »

Yet 31% think the death toll is being overstated

PandaMuffin1 on August 3rd, 2020 at 20:46 UTC »

What makes me angry is that my mother did not support wearing masks until Trump wore one. If he had led his sheeple early on, this would have reduced the spread.