A new Morning Consult public opinion survey finds 46 percent of Republican voters agreeing that the House GOP should make investigating Hunter Biden a “top priority,” higher than the 32 and 31 percent of MAGA voters who said interfering with the federal criminal investigations of Trump’s theft of classified documents and the post-2020 election coup attempt should be the top focus.
The answers weren’t mutually exclusive as respondents could say “top priority” to more than one, but that more Dem voters said “top priority” to the Trump documents theft (39 percent) and the failed post-2020 coup (34 percent) suggests some ambiguity to the questions and they may not have been worded specifically enough to make it clear that Morning Consult definitely meant Jim Jordan-type interference like subpoenaing Jack Smith, impeaching Merrick Garland, et cetera – as opposed to Congress adding to the pressure Trump already faces from the justice system. Despite this, they still write “As House Republicans grapple with how to leverage their investigative powers to take on the Justice Department, our data shows there is more political energy on the right to probe the dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, than to examine the DOJ’s motivations for investigating former President Donald Trump,” in the release on their findings.
Or maybe those Dem respondents are thinking “Fuck it, bring it on,” and want Jim Jordan to look like a complete asshole. The survey also found that 52 percent of all respondents approve of Trump’s indictment versus 39 percent disapproving. Among GOP voters, the indictment scored 21 percent approve and 69 percent disapprove, while with independents it was 49 percent approve to 38 percent disapprove. On motivation, 47 percent said it was primarily based on the evidence versus 43 percent who said to damage Trump’s political career, with independents it was 46 percent evidence to 38 percent political, again likely indicating that hilarious overlap of “So what if it’s politically motivated? I still want to see the fat miserable bastard die in prison.”