The number of voters who believe that it was Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton that Russia was favoring in the 2016 election has jumped by half in a new poll.
The latest survey from Democratic pollster Public Policy Polling also found that President Trump’s supporters solidly believe that the FBI put a spy on his campaign.
Clinton’s team has long charged that Moscow worked to help Trump win, and special counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller is probing those charges. But there has also been charges that Russia was trying to help Clinton and now more voters agree.
The PPP poll found that the increase in voters who feel Moscow was on Clinton’s side in the 2016 election grew from 20 percent to 31 percent. They blame Trump’s suggestions that the Russians favored Clinton for the shift.
“A year ago only 20 percent of voters claimed Russia wanted Hillary Clinton to win the election, to 57 percent who said it wanted Trump to win. But as Trump has pushed a narrative that Russia actually helped Clinton it’s gone up to 32 percent of voters saying Russia wanted Clinton to win the election to 51 percent for Trump, because a majority of Trump voters (54 percent) now say Russia wanted Clinton to win to 18 percent who grant that it wanted Trump to win,” said the polling analysis.
It also said that Trump’s claims that the FBI put a mole in his campaign has wide support among Trump voters.
“One thing Trump has going for him is that his voters are lining up behind him on his ‘Spygate’ conspiracy theory. 71 percent of Trump voters think the FBI put a spy inside his campaign for president, to only 13 percent who don’t think that happened,” it said.
