A recently conducted Trafalgar Group survey revealed that the majority of American residents would prefer if the COVID-19 vaccine remained optional, while others support proposed vaccine mandates.
While inoculation rates have dropped in the greater portion of the country, the Texas Department of Health & Human Services has reported a 71.34% rate of Travis County residents' first-dose vaccinations, and 62.31% of the population as fully vaccinated.
“These numbers reveal that hundreds of millions of social media messages, a constant stream of propaganda from the press, paid TV and radio ad campaigns coast-to-coast, daily hammering from Biden administration officials, and cajoling from influencers and celebrities on every possible communication platform is having one profound effect on the public,” said Mark Meckler, president of Convention of States Action said. “It’s all backfiring.”
The Convention of States Action partnered with The Trafalgar Group to conduct the survey. The results were collected on July 12 and July 13 with more than 1,000 likely 2022 election voter responses.
The data, collected from 1,077 general election voter participants, found that a whopping 71.4% admitted to viewing the COVID-19 vaccine as a personal choice and not a government requirement, while only 21.8% supported potential vaccine mandates, the Trafalgar Group reports. The results surged to different rates depending on American’s preferred party affiliation. While 87.3% of Republicans voiced their preference for optional COVID-19 vaccines, a slightly smaller portion of Democrats, at 58.7%, agreed, while 67.2% joined the majority.
The purpose of the grassroots political organization, counting with more than 5 million supporters across the U.S., is to propose an Article V Convention of the States to introduce additional constitution-biding amendments, intended to impose limitations on the size and scope of the federal government, the Convention of States noted. The public polling and market research site is considered the "most accurate pollster of the cycle among those firms that polled multiple Senate and governor races within the U.S. political industry,” in 2021.
“Americans have never taken kindly to being told what to do, and they are not going to start now,” Meckler said. “After being told ‘my body, my choice’ for nearly five decades by the same crowd now hypocritically pushing mandates, is it any wonder the public isn’t on board?”