Majority of Americans say Joe and Hunter's business deals and links to alleged bribery scheme ARE serious: BidenGate gets real as new poll shows half of DEMOCRATS believe 'influence-peddling' scheme is a scandal
69 percent of US voters say they're taking BidenGate seriously
That goes for most independents and nearly half of Biden's own Democrats By James Reinl, For Dailymail.Com
Published: 16:29 BST, 12 May 2023
Seven in ten Americans say an alleged bribery and influence peddling scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son, Hunter, and other family members amounts to a scandal, new polling shows.
The Rasmussen Reports survey comes as House Republicans ratchet up their probe into allegations that the Bidens received millions of dollars in payments from foreign entities in China and Romania.
The nationwide poll of nearly 1,000 voters found that 69 percent said alleged foreign influence peddling by the Bidens was a serious scandal, with more than half calling it 'very serious'.
Worse still for the president: it's not just Republican voters who see impropriety here.
Nearly nine-in-ten Republican voters call out wrongdoing by the Bidens, but the same goes for some three quarters of independents and nearly half of supporters of the president's own Democratic Party.
The survey was carried out nationwide on May 8-10, as Republicans on the House Oversight Committee gave an update on the Biden family's 'shady' business deals.
The committee led by Chairman James Comer released a 'Second Records Memorandum' that expands on information it received from subpoena returns as the committee probes the Biden family's business practices.
The memo outlines the Biden family's ties to Romanian 'influence peddling' and a web of LLCs created while Biden was vice president.
It also accuses President Biden of a 'lack of transparency' regarding his family's receipt of funds from China, which he has said are 'not true.'
It details the efforts by the family to hide, conceal and confuse sources of money — including more China money, according to a committee aide.
'These numbers are just going to go up,' said Rasmussen's top pollster, Mark Mitchell.
'Bit by bit, more of what Joe Biden has done is going to leak out ... and it's going to get increasingly uncomfortable for the Biden administration.'