CNN's new poll has very little good news for Donald Trump on Russia

[Uncle Joe]

(CNN)The BIG headline out of CNN's new national poll probing how Americans feel about President Donald Trump, special counsel Robert Mueller and the ongoing Russia investigation is that a large majority want Mueller to wrap things up before this November's midterm elections.

(snip)

And that is where they would be making a major mistake. Because if you look at any question in the CNN poll -- other than the one about when people want the probe to end -- and you see piece after piece of evidence that Trump is losing the public relations war on Russia.

Consider:
55% disapprove of how Trump is handling the "investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election." Just 34% approve.
47% approve of how Mueller is handling the probe as opposed to 39% who disapprove, an improvement from the 41% approve/29% disapprove in CNN's last poll in June.
Almost six in 10 think Russia's attempted interference in the 2016 campaign is a "serious matter that should be fully investigated."
56% think Trump has attempted to interfere in the investigation.
Just more than one in three (37%) of respondents say Trump's public statements about the Russia probe have been completely or mostly true. By contrast, 56% believe what Trump has said about the investigation is either mostly or completely false.
Almost 80% of Democrats say that the investigation into Russian interference will be either extremely or very important to their votes for Congress this fall.

(snip)

That is what the new CNN poll reveals: A public, yes, weary of the Mueller probe, but one also deeply unhappy with how the President of the United States has handled it. Don't be fooled into believing anything else.


https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/14/politics/donald-trump-robert-mueller-poll/index.html

[yallerdawg]

1. "Impeach and Imprison" requires criminal charges.

Just from a mid-term political perspective, I would think criminal charges would motivate a lot of Democrats and the "wishy-washy who can't make a commitment."

[Uncle Joe]

2. I agree yallerdawg, but I see no reason to half step it

in bringing the maximum number of Americans to the polls, or fans to their feet, the vision and the punch.

[lagomorph777]

3. Wanting Mueller to end it before November is mainly because we want it to have

maximum possible impact on the election. We want the public to know exactly what Turd and his minions have been up to, in time to do something about it.

I acknowledge that completing the investigation into the vast Putin/GOP/Trump criminal enterprise by November is unrealistic. I would love to see it though (if Mueller could give us a full accounting) - because November may be Democracy's final chance.