As congressional Democrats zero in on Attorney General William Barr’s four-page synopsis of Robert Mueller’s report, the candidates vying to run against President Donald Trump next year and the voters desperate to unseat him are largely ignoring the spectacle that has dominated Washington’s attention for years. …
On the campaign trail this year, Democrats have consistently framed Trump as the manifestation of a deeper rot in American politics, one that — as former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke said this weekend in Las Vegas — must be “settled at the ballot box in November of 2020.” …
In polling, the Russia investigation consistently came up as one of the least important issues for voters during the past cycle. A minority (48%) of likely voters told CNN in November 2018 that the “investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election” was extremely or very important to their vote — the only one of nine issues tested by CNN that less than a majority said was extremely or very important. CONT.
Gregory Krieg, Dan Merica & Harry Enten, CNN