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BidenGate: Most Voters Don’t Believe President’s Denials
Rasmussen Polling
Thursday, July 06, 2023
President Joe Biden last week once again denied being involved in his son Hunter’s business deals with foreigners, but a majority of voters still suspect he was.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 58% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is likely the president was involved in Hunter’s foreign business deals, including 44% who believe it’s Very Likely he was involved. Thirty-three percent (33%) say it’s not likely Biden was involved in his son’s business deals, including 19% who think it is Not At All Likely. Another 10% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Last week, the president shouted “no, I wasn’t … no,” when asked about a 2017 text message from his son to Chinese businessman Henry Zhao in which Hunter demanded payment, saying he was “sitting here with my father.”
However, 82% of Republicans, 38% of Democrats and 56% of voters not affiliated with either major party believe it’s at least somewhat likely Biden was involved in Hunter’s foreign business.
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The survey of 1,054 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on June 28-29 and July 2, 2023 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Asked if they have seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Joe Biden or former president Donald Trump, 45% of voters say Trump, while 42% say Biden and another 13% are not sure.
These responses mostly follow party lines, with 69% of Democrats saying they’ve seen more evidence of wrongdoing by Trump while 69% of Republicans say they’ve seen more evidence of wrongdoing by Biden. Unaffiliated voters are almost evenly divided, with 43% saying they have seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Trump and 40% saying they’ve seen more by Biden.
There is a significant “gender gap” on these questions, as more men (49%) than women voters (39%) think it is Very Likely the president was involved in Hunter’s foreign business deals. Forty-seven percent (47%) of men and 38% of women voters say they have seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Biden, while 49% of women voters and 41% of men say they’ve seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Trump.
Older voters are more likely to believe the president was involved in Hunter’s foreign business deals, and also more likely to say they’ve seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Biden than Trump.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of whites, 47% of black voters and 63% of other minorities think it’sat least somewhat likely the president was involved in Hunter’s foreign business deals. Black voters are more likely to say they’ve seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Trump than Biden.
Breaking down the electorate by income categories, those in the highest bracket – earning more than $200,000 a year – are least likely to believe the president was involved in Hunter’s foreign business deals, while those within annual incomes below $50,000 are most likely to say they’ve seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Biden.
Among voters who think it’s Very Likely that the president was involved in Hunter’s deals, 82% say they’ve seen more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Biden than by Trump.
A majority of voters disapprove of a plea bargain that kept Hunter Biden out of federal prison, and suspect favoritism for President Joe Biden’s son.
Republicans are more trusted to deal with corruption in government, especially among independent voters.
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