Almost 70% of voters equally concerned about Biden and Trump classified documents sagas: Poll
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Close to 70% of people are equally concerned about documents found at President Joe Biden‘s and former President Donald Trump‘s homes, according to a poll.
A recent NBC News poll determined 67% of respondents find it “concerning” that sensitive materials were found, beginning in August with the raid at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and continuing into the new year with discoveries at the Penn Biden Center and the president’s home in Delaware.
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In Biden’s case specifically, 33% of respondents say the discovery is “very concerning,” compared to Trump, with 36%. Similarly, 18% say Biden’s document saga is “not concerning,” compared to Trump, with 20% saying the same. Both Trump and Biden received 67% for the matter being “concerning.”
Across party lines, 52% of Democrats are concerned about Biden’s documents, and 53% of Republicans are concerned with Trump’s documents.
“Neither president gets a pass from their partisans,” Republican pollster Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies told NBC News. He conducted the survey with Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates.
This follows a recent poll from Morning Consult, which showed that the discovery of classified documents at Biden’s home and office did not affect his approval rating. It remains at 43% of voters approving of the president’s job performance, in line with the ratings seen at the end of December.
However, NBC News’s poll shows that 71% of people believe the country is off on the wrong track, with 23% believing it’s headed in the right direction. This reflects almost exact responses from this time last year. The NBC poll showed Biden’s approval rating at 45% for total approval and 50% for total disapproval.
The poll also found that majorities believe the Republican-led House of Representatives will be too inflexible in working with the White House and will spend too much time investigating the president rather than focusing on other priorities.
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NBC News conducted the poll prior to the news that former Vice President Mike Pence discovered a small number of classified documents at his home in Indiana.
The NBC News poll was conducted from Jan. 20-24, 2023, with a pool of 1,000 adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.10 points.