New Poll Finds Strong Majority of Republicans Believe Trump’s Signalgate a ‘Serious Problem’
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A new survey from YouGov found that a strong majority of Republicans believe that the Trump administration’s Signalgate is a “serious problem.”
The U.S. was rocked this week by the revelation that Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, was included in a group chat of top Trump officials discussing bombing a foreign country over the messaging app.
YouGov conducted the first poll on the fallout of the scandal, which has included administration denials that any classified information was shared, despite specifics about the military operation being discussed. The poll asked 5,976 U.S. adults on Tuesday to weigh in on the seriousness of the scandal.
Of those polled, a whopping 74 percent believe the scandal to be serious, including 60 percent of Republicans, 89 percent of Democrats, and 72 percent of Independents.
Axios on Thursday highlighted some of the survey’s more eyepopping finds:
74% of Americans say the group chat that discussed U.S. strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen was a very (53%) or somewhat (21%) serious problem, according to the YouGov online survey of 5,976 U.S. adults conducted this week.
Over a quarter (28%) of Republicans polled said it was a “very serious” problem.
Just 13% of Americans say the situation was not very serious or not at all serious.
One stunning stat: A higher share of adults polled said they thought Signalgate was a serious problem than said the same about then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server in past polls.
In 2022, YouGov found that 62 percent of Americans believed Clinton’s email scandal was a serious problem, which was up from 2015 when only 56 percent believed so.
Trump’s National Security Advisor Mike Waltz took “full responsibility” for the national security leak, which experts have suggested meant adversarial countries like Russia and China were also easily able to hack. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Intelligence Chief Tulsi Gabbard are also under fire for their responses to being a part of the chat.
