Poll shocker: 28% of Democrats think America better off if Trump had been assassinated

In a shocking display of how vitriolic U.S. politics has become, more than a quarter of Democrats believe America would be better off if GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump had been killed during one of the two assassination attempts on his life, a new survey revealed Wednesday.

The new poll of 1,000 registered voters taken by veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen's Napolitan News Institute after the second assassination attempt against Trump on Sunday at a Florida golf course revealed that 17% of voters say it would have been better for America had Donald Trump had been killed last weekend.

That figure included a whopping 28% of Democrats, the survey showed.

You can see the full results here.

Americans also had strong thoughts on what was driving the would-be assassins to act, with 45% suggesting it was anti-Trump rhetoric and 41% suggesting it was news media coverage.

Voters also had a theory about the motives of the alleged shooter, with 46% percent saying they were "crazed individuals" while 33% believed they were part of an organized effort.

But in a trend dating to John F. Kennedy's assasination in 1963 in Dallas, Americans suggested they were open to possible conspirators in the assassination, with 37% suggesting government agencies could be involved, 34% believe it was possible Democrats or the campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala could be involved and 33% open to foreign involvement.

Remarkably, 33% suggested it was possible that Trump or his campaign were involved in the assassination plots.

The survey was conducted online by Rasmussen on Sept. 16-17, and had a sampling error plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.