Donald Trump is under mounting pressure to release his federal tax returns and despite his campaign’s repeated claim that Americans “don’t care” about seeing them, a new poll strongly suggests otherwise.
According to the latest Morning Consult survey of registered U.S. voters, 67 percent believe every presidential candidate should be required to release his or her tax returns, including 60 percent of Republican voters.
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Seventy-five percent of voters also said the major party nominees should release a copy of their birth certificate, while 55 percent said a candidate’s medical history should be made public as well.
Trump recently pledged release of his tax returns when they are no longer being audited by the IRS, but would not disclose what he plans to do if the audit is not completed before the November election.
Several of his opponents, including Hillary Clinton, have speculated that the billionaire is reluctant to release his tax returns because they contain a “bombshell” of some kind.
“[Hillary’s] opponent who never tires of telling us how much richer he is than the rest of us won’t release his tax returns,” former President Bill Clinton told voters at a campaign rally Monday in Stockton, Calif.
The Morning Consult survey of 2,001 registered voters was conducted May 19-23 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
