Nearly 75% Of Voters Want To Ban Taxpayer Funding To Chinese Companies: POLL

A new poll released Wednesday found that nearly 75% of American voters want to cease all taxpayer funding to Chinese companies on both the state and federal levels.

The White House announced earlier this week that the Chinese app, TikTok, must be removed from government devices in the next thirty days due to concerns that the platform is being used as spyware, according to Reuters. The poll from the Convention of States Action, an organization dedicated to calling for a Convention of States to amend the Constitution, and The Trafalgar Group, a polling and survey company, found that a significant majority of Americans, 74.1%, want federal and state governments to cut ties with companies with ties to the Chinese government. (RELATED: White House Gives Final Warning For Agencies To Purge TikTok)

“Removing CCP-backed infrastructure, operations, products and influence from the U.S. is going to be a herculean task,” President of Convention of States Mark Meckler said in a press release. “We have never had a national enemy so deeply embedded in so many aspects of American society. The good news is, at a time when all we hear about is how divided we are, the American people are united in their desire to remove malign Chinese Communist Party influence from our country.”

Voters in both political camps indicated their concerns about the Chinese government’s interference in the U.S. government with 64.8% of Democrats and 81.5% of Republicans saying they were in favor of ending public funding, according to the poll. Americans that claimed no affiliation with either party were also strongly supportive of the measure at 75.2%.

BERLIN, GERMANY – SEPTEMBER 21: A young man holding a smartphone casts a shadow as he walks past an advertisement for social media company TikTok on September 21, 2020, in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The poll’s respondents were made of 39.3% Democrats with Republicans not far behind at 35.6%, while independents came in at 25.1%. Female voters made up 53.3% of poll respondents compared to 46.7% of their male counterparts.

Black and Hispanic Americans made up 12.3% and 11. 5% of respondents, respectively, while Asian voters came in at 3.9% and white Americans made up 71.2% of the respondents, according to the poll.

Meckler told the Daily Caller News Foundation that while he strongly advocates for free speech “weaponizing extremely popular and addictive software against the interests against the American people” is not a violation of the First Amendment.

The poll was conducted from Feb. 22 to Feb. 23 with 1,084 “likely general election voters” with a response rate of 1.46% and a margin of error of 2.9%.