Republicans are trying to stop Hillary Clinton by
making her emails into a presidential disqualifier, but a new poll shows
that the American people don’t care about her emails or her server.
Via CNN:
Clinton maintains this edge in the general election race despite a growing perception that by using a personal email account and server while serving as secretary of state she did something wrong. About 56% say so in the new poll, up from 51% in March. About 4-in-10 (39%) now say she did not do anything wrong by using personal email. Among Democrats, the share saying she did not do anything wrong has dipped from 71% in March to 63% now, and just 37% of independents say she did not do wrong by using the personal email system.
Clinton maintains this edge in the general election race despite a growing perception that by using a personal email account and server while serving as secretary of state she did something wrong. About 56% say so in the new poll, up from 51% in March. About 4-in-10 (39%) now say she did not do anything wrong by using personal email. Among Democrats, the share saying she did not do anything wrong has dipped from 71% in March to 63% now, and just 37% of independents say she did not do wrong by using the personal email system.
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But the fading numbers haven’t hurt her
against some Republican cabal contenders. Clinton has her biggest lead over Fiorina,
topping her 53% to 43% among registered voters. She leads Bush by a
nearly identical margin, 52% to 43%. And Clinton tops both Trump (51% to
45%) and Walker (52% to 46%) by 6 points each.
Republicans have been successful in using the email
scandal to lower Clinton’s approval ratings, but those lower approval
ratings have not translated into Clinton trailing any of her potential
Republican opponents in general election matchups.
The takeaway from this data is that even if voters
believe that Hillary Clinton did something wrong with her emails, the
majority of them are still going to vote for her in November 2016.
In other words, voters don’t care about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
For Republicans, Clinton’s emails have become the
latest in a long line of recent conspiracy theories that includes
Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and Obama’s birth certificate. Every second
that a Republican presidential candidate wastes talking about emails is a
win for Democrats, but they will be talking about something that the
broader electorate does not care about.
The media loves the Clinton email story because it
allows them to recycle their old Clinton scandal narratives. It is easy
copy, especially during a slow summer political season, but it is not
making a difference with voters.
Republicans better come with a new plan.
The
email scandal isn’t working as a majority of registered voters are
still willing to vote for Hillary Clinton to be the next President Of
The United States.
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