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Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for August 24, 2022
The Number of the Day columns published on Ballotpedia reflect the views of the author.
August 24, 2022: Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters think that President Biden likely knew about the FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in advance. This result was obtained after informing survey respondents that the White House denied any advance knowledge. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that 23% say it is unlikely he knew, and 17% are not sure.
The survey also found that 37% of voters think President Biden not only knew about it in advance, but likely ordered the raid.
Methodology
The survey of 1,200 registered voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on August 9-11, 2022. Fieldwork for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation’s population of registered voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
The margin of sampling error for the full sample is +/- 2.8 percentage points.
Note: Neither Scott Rasmussen, ScottRasmussen.com, nor RMG Research, Inc. have any affiliation with Rasmussen Reports. While Scott Rasmussen founded that firm, he left nearly a decade ago and has had no involvement since that time.
Survey Questions
The White House has said it did not have advance notice of the raid. How likely is it that President Biden knew of the raid in advance?
- 35%-Very likely
- 24%-Somewhat likely
- 14%-Not very likely
- 9%-Not at all likely
- 17%-Not sure
[Asked of those who said Very or Somewhat Likely to Q4] Okay… How likely is it that President Biden ordered the raid on Donald Trump’s home?
- 40%-Didn’t know about it
- 19%-Very likely
- 18%-Somewhat likely
- 13%-Not very likely
- 4%-Not at all likely
- 5%-Not sure
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