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Politics
Chris Walker

GOP support for Trump doc handling drops

It's been around 10 months since the FBI executed a search warrant at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, obtaining thousands of government documents in the process, including more than 100 marked "classified." And since that time, support for Trump's action among Republican voters has significantly diminished.

Days after the FBI operation — which came about following the Department of Justice (DOJ) discovering evidence that Trump had misled them in a previous subpoena, falsely stating he had returned all of the classified documents that he had improperly removed from the White House — an Economist/YouGov poll found that a majority of Americans (54 percent) disapproved of Trump's holding on to the official documents after he had left office. But within that poll, a majority of Republican voters (53 percent) actually said they approved of what Trump had done.

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