A majority of people believe Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state was “unethical,” while half of voters say it was “illegal” in a new poll.
According to a detailed Morning Consult poll about the former first lady’s private email scandal, 58 percent of voters – including 36 percent of Democrats – think Clinton was wrong to be handling classified information on an unsecure email server.
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The latest survey comes one week after the State Department’s Inspector General issued a report claiming that, contrary to what Clinton has previously claimed, she never sought permission to use the server as secretary of state, and did not comply with federal record-keeping laws.
Another 48 percent of voters think the email scandal is a “major problem” for Clinton and her presidential campaign, including a quarter of self-identified Democrats. Fifty percent of independent voters and 78 percent of Republicans agreed.
The email scandal isn’t the only issue voters have with Clinton.
Nearly 65 percent of all respondents said the Democratic front-runner should release transcripts from her paid speeches to Wall Street executives, while less than 20 percent said she should not. Clinton has repeatedly declined to make the transcripts public, and said she will do so when her opponents release their own transcripts.
Within her own party, 47 percent of Democrats said Clinton should release the transcripts, and 67 percent of independents said the same.
The survey of 2,001 registered voters was conducted May 27-30. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 2 percentage points.
