Most voters say opposing party poses threat that will ‘destroy America’: poll

Concerns about democracy and anger are fueling voter enthusiasm and polarization just over two weeks before Election Day.

Roughly 80% of Democrats and Republicans said in an NBC News poll released Sunday that the opposing party’s agenda “poses a threat that, if not stopped, will destroy America as we know it.”

Independents were less polarized, with 54% saying a GOP agenda poses such a threat and 43% who said the same of Democrats.

Two-thirds of likely Democratic and Republican voters said they would still back their party’s political candidate, even if that candidate had a “moral failure in their business, marriage, or personal life that was not consistent with your own values.”