Majority of Republicans say Trump should release his tax returns
A majority of Republicans say that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump should release his tax returns, according to a new poll.
Sixty-two percent of Republicans say Trump should release his returns publicly, and 31 percent say he should not, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
{mosads}Nearly three-quarters of likely voters overall, 74 percent, say the businessman should release his tax returns, while 21 percent don’t think he should release them.
Trump has refused for months to release his returns, citing a federal audit, despite the insistence of top political figures, including members of his own party.
“It’s too important,” House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said Wednesday, calling on Trump to release his tax returns.
Trump’s son Eric Trump said it would be “foolish” for his father to release his forms, saying people would try to “come up with assumptions on things they know nothing about.”
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton released her 2015 returns recently, and she and former President Bill Clinton have made their returns public going back to 1977.
The survey of 1,498 likely voters was conducted Aug. 18–24 via landlines and cellphones and has a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points.
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