A new Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey finds that 62% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is likely Clinton and her staff deleted those e-mails to hide something incriminating from the FBI, with 45% who say it’s Very Likely. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it’s unlikely they were trying to hide anything, but that includes only 15% who say it’s Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here .)

A new Rasmussen poll reveals that the public is largely persuaded that Hillary was covering up something sinister when she deleted her emails, and that the media/Democrat hyperventilating over Donald Trump being treasonous in asking Russia to reveal the emails if they have them is off-kilter.

The basic configuration of the battlefield between Clinton and Trump favors Trump. This is why the media are spending much of the time attacking Trump “gaffes” – real and imagined. Play offense, no matter how trivial or tortured the logic for demonizing the Donald.

Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump suggested last week that if the Russians have the missing 30,000 Clinton e-mails, they should turn them over to the FBI. Just 34% of voters feel it would be bad for U.S.-Russia relations if the Russians had obtained Clinton’s e-mail through cyberspying and now turned them over to the FBI. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say such a move would be good for relations between the two countries, while 26% think it would have no impact. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

So the hard core Hillary constituency, believing she would never do something untoward, is only 15%. And only just over a third of the public is in her camp on the issue. That leaves almost two thirds of the voting public ready to consider the possibilities – bribery, treason, and scandalous yoga positions among other potential Hillary secrets.

A new Rasmussen poll reveals that the public is largely persuaded that Hillary was covering up something sinister when she deleted her emails, and that the media/Democrat hyperventilating over Donald Trump being treasonous in asking Russia to reveal the emails if they have them is off-kilter.

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone and online survey finds that 62% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is likely Clinton and her staff deleted those e-mails to hide something incriminating from the FBI, with 45% who say it’s Very Likely. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it’s unlikely they were trying to hide anything, but that includes only 15% who say it’s Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

So the hard core Hillary constituency, believing she would never do something untoward, is only 15%. And only just over a third of the public is in her camp on the issue. That leaves almost two thirds of the voting public ready to consider the possibilities – bribery, treason, and scandalous yoga positions among other potential Hillary secrets.

As for Trump’s “treason”:

Clinton’s Republican rival Donald Trump suggested last week that if the Russians have the missing 30,000 Clinton e-mails, they should turn them over to the FBI. Just 34% of voters feel it would be bad for U.S.-Russia relations if the Russians had obtained Clinton’s e-mail through cyberspying and now turned them over to the FBI. Twenty-seven percent (27%) say such a move would be good for relations between the two countries, while 26% think it would have no impact. Thirteen percent (13%) are not sure.

There is the same third-plus who buy the pro-Hillary, anti-Trump narrative.

The basic configuration of the battlefield between Clinton and Trump favors Trump. This is why the media are spending much of the time attacking Trump “gaffes” – real and imagined. Play offense, no matter how trivial or tortured the logic for demonizing the Donald.