Sixty-two percent of Americans say President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court should be confirmed or rejected by the Senate before the November elections, while 33 percent believe there should be no vote scheduled until after the midterm contests, a new NBC News./SurveyMonkey poll revealed.
Here are highlights from the results released on Tuesday:
- 85 percent of Republicans favor a Senate vote before the election
- 61 percent of independents support a vote prior to the midterms
- 55 percent of Democrats say any vote should wait until after the election
- 65 percent of Republicans want another conservative on the high court
- 53 percent of Democrats want a moderate on the bench
- 63 percent of independents said the next justice should be a moderate
- 61 percent of all those surveyed want the court to uphold Roe v. Wade, the landmark court case that legalized abortion
The poll, conducted June 27-July 1, sampled 2,652 people. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
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