Half of Americans believe that former President Donald Trump should face criminal prosecution for storing classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and nearly six in 10 think he acted inappropriately, a new poll has found.
Americans by 59% to 26% say Trump keeping the boxes of classified documents he brought with him to Florida was inappropriate, a Quinnipiac poll showed.
And 50% think the former president should face criminal charges.
As the saga has been unfolding over the storing of the documents since the Aug. 8 FBI raid, 76% of Americans say they are following the developments closely — split evenly between “very closely” and “somewhat closely.”
Asked how serious they think the allegations against Trump are, 49% say “very,” 15% say “somewhat,” while 13% say “not too serious” and 19% say “not serious at all.”
Among Republicans, 27% believe they’re “not serious,” and 67% shrug them off as being “not too” or “not serious at all.”
Half of Americans believe that former President Donald Trump should face criminal prosecution for hiding classified information, according to a new poll. APNinety-six percent of Democrats say the allegations are “very” or “somewhat serious.”
Only 3% of Democrats consider the claims “not serious at all.”
Amid the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents and President Biden’s recent rise in the polls, Americans would rather not see a repeat of the 2020 contest in 2024.
Sixty-two percent of Americans say Trump should not run again in 2024. Robert Miller
Of those surveyed, 50% think Trump should face criminal charges. Department of Justice via APAmericans by 67% to 26% say Biden should not seek re-election, and Americans 62% to 33% say Trump should sit out the election.
The poll showed that 40% of Americans approve of the job Biden is doing as president, an increase of 9 percentage points since July, but 52% still disapprove of his job performance.
Despite the upturn in the polls, the president still gets low marks for his handling of the economy (58%), foreign policy (54%) and the situation at the border (60%).
He has a 50% approval rating for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and a 44% positive rating for his work on climate change.
On the question of the direction of the country, 49% say they are “very dissatisfied,” 26% say “somewhat dissatisfied,” while 26% are “very” or “somewhat satisfied.”
The survey polled 1,584 adults between Aug. 25 and 29.
It has a plus/minus 2.5 percentage-point margin of error.
