Getty Poll: 54 percent of voters fault Clintons on foundation

Bill and Hillary Clinton did not take appropriate steps to avoid conflicts of interest in donations to the Clinton Foundation, a majority of likely voters said in a new national Suffolk University/USA Today poll out Thursday.

In the poll, where the Democratic nominee leads Donald Trump by seven points, 54 percent responded that the Clintons did not appropriately move to guard against conflicts of interest, amid emails showing interactions of prominent foundation officials with Hillary Clinton's top aides at the State Department.


Another 30 percent, when presented the answer, chose "Hillary Clinton shouldn’t be criticized for donations to the Clinton Foundation, which does good works." Around 17 percent said they were undecided between those two options.

Among Democrats surveyed, 33 percent said the Clintons did not take appropriate steps, while 52 percent said that their nominee should not be criticized over the donations from people who had business with her State Department. Approximately three in four Republicans (75 percent to 11 percent) responded that the Clintons should have done more, while 14 percent said they were undecided.

The poll was conducted Aug. 24-29 via landlines and cellphones, surveying 1,000 likely voters with an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.