Voters do not believe Russian cyberattacks had any impact on the U.S. presidential election, by a margin of nearly two-to-one, according to a Fox News poll released Wednesday evening.
Three in five registered voters said Russia’s attempts to influence the election against Hillary Clinton had “no effect,” while one-third said it helped President-elect Trump, the Dec. 11-13 poll of registered voters found. More than one-third of Democrats, 85 percent of Republicans and two-thirds of independents said it had no effect.
But most of Clinton’s supporters blame Russian President Vladimir Putin’s country for costing Democrats the election. Three in five Clinton voters said the leaked emails gave Trump an advantage, while just more than one-quarter of Clinton backers said it had no impact.
Half of voters said Trump has been “too accommodating” with Russia, while only 17 percent said Trump has treated China that way. Meanwhile, 40 percent of voters said Trump was “too confrontational” with China and 15 percent said he took the same tough tone with Russia.
The poll was conducted by Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research from Dec. 11-13 through landline and cell phone interviews with more than 1,000 registered voters nationwide. The questions had a 3 percent margin of error except for those regarding Clinton supporters, which had a 4.5 percent sampling error.
