A Trump supporter displays a pro-QAnon poster at a 2018 rally in Florida. (Photo/JTA-Thomas O'Neill-NurPhoto via Getty Images) News Politics Nearly 3 in 10 Republicans believe central premise of QAnon conspiracy, survey finds Facebook Twitter Email SMS WhatsApp Share By Ben Sales, JTA | February 16, 2021 Nearly three in 10 Republicans believe the claim driving the QAnon conspiracy theory, according to a survey released last week by a conservative think tank. According to the survey by the American Enterprise Institute, 29 percent of Republicans believe the baseless claim that former President “Donald Trump has been secretly fighting a group of child sex traffickers that include prominent Democrats and Hollywood elites.” That’s the idea at the center of the false QAnon conspiracy theory, which has gained millions of supporters across the United States and was praised repeatedly by Trump. The conspiracy theory has also been endorsed in the past by two Republican congresswomen, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, though both have since disavowed it. QAnon, scholars say, is rooted in age-old antisemitic conspiracy theories that falsely allege that Jews abduct and abuse children for ritual purposes, and that a shadowy cabal of Jewish elites secretly controls the world. The survey also found that more than one in four evangelical Christians, 27 percent, believes the central tenet of QAnon, according to the Religion News Service. The survey included 2,016 respondents and was conducted in late January. It has a margin of error of 2.7 percent. Ben Sales JTA reporter JTA Content distributed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency news service. Also On J. Local Voice Who is really under attack at SFSU? News Davis imam apologizes for anti-Semitic sermon Bay Area Rise in anti-Semitic incidents at Bay Area schools Bay Area Protesters crash farm Purim party Subscribe to our Newsletter Enter Email Sign Up