A new poll shows that party affiliation has a significant bearing on how voters view President Donald Trump's firing this week of James Comey as FBI director.
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Trump's base is rallying in support of his controversial decision to fire James Comey
A new poll shows party affiliation to have a significant bearing on how voters view President Donald Trump's recent firing of the FBI director, James Comey.
Donald Trump and James Comey.
A Morning Consult/Politico poll conducted Tuesday to Thursday found that 62% of Republicans and 16% of Democrats thought Trump was right to remove the director of the nation's top law-enforcement agency.
In a poll conducted in mid-April, Republicans were much less in favor of such a firing, while Democrats were slightly more supportive than they are now. In April, 31% of Republican voters, and 22% of Democrats, believed Comey should lose his job.
All respondents — Democrats, Republicans, and independents — were more likely to say Trump's decision was inappropriate after they were informed of the FBI's ongoing investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.
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After being told of Comey's controversial handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, 47% of all voters — 70% of Republicans and 29% of Democrats — thought it was appropriate to fire him.
The May poll had more than 1,700 respondents, and the April survey polled almost 2,000 voters. Both polls have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.
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