Bannon Charges, O’Keefe Investigation Motivated by Politics, Most Voters Say
Have the FBI and the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) become political weapons against President Joe Biden’s opponents? After targeting Trump adviser Steve Bannon and conservative journalist James O’Keefe, most voters think so.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 82% of Likely U.S. Voters think it’s important that the federal Justice Department and the FBI avoid interfering in the political process. That includes 64% who say it’s Very Important to keep the FBI and DOJ out of politics. Only nine (9%) don’t think it’s important for the FBI and DOJ to stay out of the political process, while an equal number are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on November 16-17, 2021 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
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