New York voters are divided on what to do with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, a new survey released Tuesday reveals.
Half of voters want to close the doors on the Mueller report, but 45 percent want House Judiciary Committee to use it to commence an impeachment probe against Trump, the Siena College Poll found.
There was broad agreement with the Mueller report’s major finding: that Russian influenced the 2016 presidential election to aid Trump. Sixty-two percent of New Yorkers agreed with the conclusion.
The Mueller report found that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russian operatives.
About 50 percent of voters surveyed don’t think Russia and Trump worked together, compared to 44 percent who did.
But two-thirds of voters said the Mueller report did not completely exonerate Trump from wrongdoing compared to 25 percent of respondents who said it did.
Meanwhile 59 percent of respondents said Trump obstructed justice, while 35 percent disagreed.
And a majority of voters — 53 percent — said Trump committed offenses that are grounds for impeachment, compared to 39 percent who disagreed.
There was a big partisan divide on whether to investigate Trump further.
“While 61 percent of Democrats say there should be an impeachment investigation, 83 percent of Republicans and 52 percent of independents say it’s time to move on,” said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.
Voters’ views of Mueller himself also were colored by their political affiliation.
Mueller is viewed favorably by 47 percent of voters, including strong majorities of Democrats and independents, while 34 percent, including a plurality of Republicans, view him unfavorably.
But a strong majority of voters said the probe and report by Mueller’s team were credible — 61 percent said the investigation was conducted fairly and without bias. More than 60 percent of Democrats and registered independent voters believe he was fair, while Republicans were split.
Voters were also were split on whether an investigation into how and why the original probe into Trump — which led to the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller — was started. Attorney General William Barr has initiated such an inquiry.
The poll found that 46 percent of voters agreed and disagreed with such a look back.
The poll queried over 800 voters between June 2-6 and has 4.1 percentage point margin of error.
