Forty-one percent of voters said Trump should meet with Kim without preconditions.
Voters are split on whether President Donald Trump should meet with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, without first securing promises from the North on its nuclear weapons program, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll conducted after the announcement that Trump had agreed to meet Kim this spring.
Forty-one percent of voters, surveyed this weekend about a Trump-Kim sit-down, said Trump should meet with Kim without preconditions — slightly more than the 36 percent who said Trump should meet with Kim only if North Korea makes concessions regarding its nuclear program beforehand. Nearly a quarter of voters, 24 percent, had no opinion.
That result comes from a supplemental survey to the regular, weekly POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, which was already in the field when the meeting was announced.
In the regular poll, voters are sharply divided on their trust in Trump to handle threats posed by North Korea. Fewer than a quarter of voters, 24 percent, say they have “a lot” of trust in Trump,21 percent have “some” confidence, 16 percent don’t have much confidence and 31 percent have “no confidence at all.”
A majority of Republican voters, 51 percent, say they have a lot of confidence in Trump to handle North Korea — but 54 percent of Democratic voters have no confidence at all.
