A stunning new survey from Rasmussen Reports reveals a majority of Democrats still believe Donald Trump won in 2016 over Hillary Rodham Clinton because of collusion, despite recent revelations about “the corrupt origins” of the political hoax.
Rasmussen released the survey results Tuesday. Incredibly, 42 percent of likely voters still “consider it likely that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.” This includes 24 percent who believe there was collusion between Trump and Russia, even in the wake of a CIA report explaining otherwise.
“The CIA recently issued a report which found that Obama administration officials, including the CIA Director at the time, John Brennan, ‘manipulated intelligence’ about Russia to ‘get Trump’,” Rasmussen’s poll discovered.
Writing at the New York Post, journalist Miranda Devine noted earlier this month, “A bombshell new CIA review of the Obama administration’s spy agencies’ assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump was deliberately corrupted by then-CIA Director John Brennan, FBI Director James Comey and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who were ‘excessively involved’ in its drafting, and rushed its completion in a ‘chaotic,’ ‘atypical’ and ‘markedly unconventional’ process that raised questions of a ‘potential political motive.’”
The report was ignored by many in the media, but Fox News, Devine and some others covered the revelations.
Still, the Rasmussen survey of 1,014 U.S. Likely Voters—conducted on July 6-7by Rasmussen Reports. With a margin of sampling error at +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence—found a staggering 670 percent of Democrats “believe it is likely that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election, while Trump-Russia collusion is considered unlikely by more than two-thirds (68%) of Republicans.”
Overall, Rasmussen reported, “Forty-nine percent (49%) of all likely voters agree with the findings of the new CIA report, including 33% who Strongly Agree. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree, including 21% who Strongly Disagree, while another 16% are not sure.”
The survey also found that 57% “believe that officials who were involved in the manipulation of intelligence to ‘get Trump’ should be criminally prosecuted, while 26% are against prosecution and 17% are not sure,” Rasmussen said.
A slight majority (53%) “agree that what the intelligence community did to Trump is a bigger scandal than Watergate, including 34% who Strongly Agree. Thirty-eight percent (38%) disagree, including 27% who Strongly Disagree.” Those numbers include 73% of Republicans, 39% of Democrats and 49% of Independents.
