ATTORNEY GENERAL/POLLS/ROBERT MUELLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Amid Attorney General William Barr’s escalating clash with Congress, a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows few voters are praising him for how he has handled the release of the Mueller report. But while many voters disapprove of Barr’s handling of the report, there’s little sign of the kind of widespread antipathy that would lend public support to congressional Democrats who are considering holding the attorney general in contempt for not providing information and testimony to the House Judiciary Committee. Fewer than 3 in 10 voters, 29 percent, approve of the way Barr has handled the release of the report, the poll shows. But disapproval of Barr is at just 39 percent — with nearly a third of voters, 32 percent, expressing no opinion. Despite the revelation that special counsel Robert Mueller wrote a letter to Barr after the attorney general released a four-page memo on his report‘s conclusions — which did not conclude that President Donald Trump criminally conspired with the Russian government to affect the 2016 presidential election — Barr’s approval rating concerning the Mueller report is essentially unchanged over the past two weeks. In mid-April, after a redacted version of the 448-page report was released, 30 percent of voters approved of Barr’s handling of the issue, and 37 percent of them disapproved.”
–Steven Shepard, “Poll: Little support for Barr’s handling of Mueller report,” Politico, May 8, 2019 5:20 am