In the July 25 survey of 1,992 registered voters, 35 percent of registered voters said the president was exonerated by Mueller, compared with 41 percent who disagreed. Evaluations broke sharply along partisan lines, with 62 percent of Democrats correctly saying that Mueller had not cleared Trump and 58 percent of Republicans saying that he had.

The misinterpretation of a core conclusion of Mueller’s testimony about his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election is likely to disappoint some Democrats, who had hoped Mueller’s televised remarks would bring his 448-page report page to life for the public and spur momentum for impeachment proceedings to remove the president from office.

While 3 in 5 voters said they have followed news coverage of the report, just a third said they’d seen, read or heard “a lot” about Mueller’s testimony this week. That is less than the 49 percent who said they’d heard a lot about Mueller’s submission of his report to Attorney General William Barr on March 22 — which Trump said demonstrated a “Complete and Total EXONERATION” on Twitter two days later — and closer to the 35 percent who heard a lot about Mueller’s public comments on the report in May, when he first said on camera that his findings did not clear Trump of wrongdoing.