But a new national survey by Morning Consult of 2,001 registered voters found that 67 percent – and 60 percent of Republicans – think presidential candidates should have to disclose their returns. Just one in five voters (21 percent) said they don’t think the financial documents should have to be released.
Unlike every Republican nominee since Ronald Reagan, Trump has refused to release his tax returns, prompting Democrats – including Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton – to question what he is “hiding.”
“Trump’s turned refusing to release his taxes into an art form. That’s what you get from a con-man like Donald Trump,” said Justin Barasky, a spokesman for Priorities USA, the main super PAC supporting Clinton’s campaign, in a Monday email launching a new web ad critical of him on the issue.
Many more Republicans, 85 percent in total, said they thought presidential candidates should be required to provide an original copy of their birth certificate, though 67 percent of Democrats and 77 percent of self-identified independents said the same thing.
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