49% of voters said they back House Democrats’ effort to obtain six years of President Donald Trump’s tax returns.

48% said Trump’s business experience helped the way he has handled his responsibilities as president.

As House Democrats continue to push for President Donald Trump’s tax returns, polling shows recently unearthed details about past business losses can dampen voters’ views about his successes in the private sector, revealing a potential liability for a man who has sold himself as a master businessman. A new Morning Consult/Politico poll asked voters whether Trump was a successful or unsuccessful businessman, before and after presenting them with information about Trump’s $1.17 billion in losses between 1985 and 1994, as reported last week by The New York Times. It found that the share of voters who described Trump as a successful businessman dropped 11 percentage points – from 54 percent to 43 percent – after being told about his reported losses to the Internal Revenue Service over that decade. Democrats became 13 points less likely to view Trump as successful in his private ventures, from 30 percent to 17 percent, and Republicans registered an 11-point drop to 74 percent.

The survey did not mention that the details came from The New York Times, and a previous study by Morning Consult found that perceptions of a news item’s accuracy shift by outlet and topic. Trump defended himself on Twitter last week, saying real estate developers such as himself “were entitled to massive write offs and depreciation which would, if one was actively building, show losses and tax losses in almost all cases,” and noting that “you always wanted to show losses for tax purposes.” But Trump has also previously mentioned experiencing tough times in business: In the intro to the first season of his hit NBC show, “The Apprentice,” Trump talked about being “seriously in trouble” and “billions of dollars in debt,” framing his struggles in the context of his comeback. “If you’re a Trump voter, one of the reasons you supported him was his claim that he knew the system better than anyone,” said Doug Heye, a Republican strategist and former spokesman for the Republican National Committee. “This shows that it may be true. And if you oppose Trump, this is simply further proof of an emperor with no clothes.”