Poll: Americans turn more anti-Russia under Trump

A majority of Americans, 68 percent, consider Russia either unfriendly or an enemy of the United States, according to a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll.

That’s a 9 percent increase from one year ago, when 59 percent of Americans said they considered Russia either unfriendly or an enemy, signaling that attitudes toward Russia have worsened amid President Donald Trump’s administration and the federal probe into Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election…

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While a 47 percent plurality of Democrat sand Democratic-leaning respondents think Russia poses the greatest immediate threat to the United States, only 10 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaners said they think so. Some 81 percent of Democrats consider Russia unfriendly or an enemy, and 61 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning respondents feel the same way.

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