Nearly two-thirds of U.S. likely voters say the Hunter Biden laptop story is still important, a new national survey by Rasmussen reveals.
Fully 63% call the story important, including 44% who deem it “very important.” Only about one in six voters (17%) think it’s “not at all important.”
The more closely voters follow the story, the more likely they are to believe that it’s an important one.
Fully 84% of those who follow the Hunter Biden laptop story “very closely” call it important, including 77% who consider it very important. Conversely, only about a third of voters who don’t follow the topic “not at all” closely say it’s either “not very” (17%) or “not at all” important.
Likewise, the more closely voters follow the Hunter Biden news, the more prone they are to believe that “Joe Biden was consulted about and perhaps profited from his son Hunter’s overseas business deals including at least one involving a company in mainland China.”
Eighty-five percent (85%) of voters who follow the story very closely think it’s likely the elder Biden was consulted, including 76% of voters who call it very much so. Just 30% of those who don’t follow it at all closely consider it either very (15%) or somewhat (15%) likely Biden was kept in the loop about Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
Among all voters, 62% say it’s likely Joe Biden was consulted. Nearly half (47%) call it very likely Hunter Biden confided in his father about business matters.
A post-election survey from the Media Research Center, conducted in November 2020 by McLaughlin & Associates, revealed that 36% of Biden voters were not aware of the evidence linking Joe Biden to corrupt financial dealings with China through his son Hunter. What’s more, 13% of these voters (or 4.6% of Biden’s total vote) said that, had they known these facts, they would not have voted for the former vice president.
Such a shift away from Biden would have resulted in President Trump winning the election with 289 electoral votes, the NewsBusters analysis found.
Rasmussen’s national survey of 1,000 U.S. likely voters was conducted August 31-September 1, 2022.
Reporting from MRC.
