Classified documents not found at Biden’s beach home after DoJ concludes search – as it happened
Agents however did take away some documents for further review, attorney for the president says
Monmouth University has new polling out on the classified documents scandal, which finds voters are more inclined to give Joe Biden and Mike Pence the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the government secrets that turned up at their properties than they are Donald Trump.
According to the survey, 50% think Pence knew there were documents in his Indiana home, while 58% believe Biden was aware of the secrets that have turned up in his Delaware residence and former office in Washington DC.
Somewhat more Democrats (91%) than Republicans (72%) believe Trump was aware of the presence of classified documents at his home, while many more Republicans (79%) than Democrats (39%) believe Biden was aware. When it comes to being very concerned about the national security implications of these documents, the partisan splits are similar for Trump (62% of Democrats and just 14% of Republicans) and Biden (62% of Republicans and just 20% of Democrats).
Obviously, we don't know exactly what was contained in any of these classified documents. But partisans are already inclined to believe that the other party's guy took more sensitive information than their own guy," said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.
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