President Trump is at a near all-time high in support from Republicans, partly driven by their overwhelming belief that the Russia collusion investigation that exonerated him was a “witch hunt.”
The latest Economist/YouGov survey put his GOP support at 87 percent. And that was before the report from special investigator Robert Mueller cleared the president of collusion with Russians in the 2016 election he won and Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton lost.
Said the analysis, “President Donald Trump has enjoyed solid support from Republicans throughout his presidency. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, which went into the field just before the Attorney General released his four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election on Sunday, 87 percent of Republicans approve of the way President Trump is handling his job, which is among the highest levels of approval from Republicans in the Trump administration.”
The survey also revealed a huge gulf between Democrats and Republicans over Mueller.
It found that 68 percent of Republicans believed it was a “witch hunt,” and 18 percent a “legitimate” probe.
But among Democrats, 82 percent called it “legitimate,” and just 7 percent a “witch hunt.”
Interestingly, YouGov pollsters said that they never found overwhelming belief that Trump colluded with Russians, despite the wave of media stories that suggested he did.
“There was never a massive public belief that the president himself colluded with Russia. In an Economist/YouGov Poll conducted earlier this month, just 41 percent said they believed the president accepted Russian help; even fewer, 31 percent, thought he asked for it,” said the new analysis.
