--- title: Americans Say Trump Jr. Should Not Have Taken Russia Meeting description: Most Americans do not think Donald Trump Jr. should have taken the campaign meeting with a Russian lawyer, according to a new poll. canonical: https://time.com/4868419/poll-donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-21T15:26:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:40:15.775Z article:section: Politics og:title: Most Americans Think Trump Jr. Should Not Have Taken Meeting og:description: According to a new poll og:url: https://time.com/4868419/poll-donald-trump-jr-russia-meeting/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb50e526b28d2f581/6988d5b086f68ec3af6e5910/donald-trump-jr-another-russian.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4189 og:image:height: 2356 og:image:alt: donald-trump-jr-another-russian og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Most Americans Think Trump Jr. Should Not Have Taken Meeting twitter:description: According to a new poll twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb50e526b28d2f581/6988d5b086f68ec3af6e5910/donald-trump-jr-another-russian.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Most Americans Think Donald Trump Jr. Should Not Have Taken Russia Meeting > Sponsored content. 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Albin Lohr-Jones—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 21, 2017 3:26 PM UTC Most Americans do not think Donald Trump Jr. should have taken a controversial election season [meeting with a Russian lawyer](http://time.com/4856233/donald-trump-jr-emails/), according to a new poll. The latest [CNN poll](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2017/images/07/20/ssrs.cnn.poll.trump.jr..russia.pdf.pdf) found that nearly 60% of people think that Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort should not have taken the meeting, which was organized after Trump Jr. was promised negative information about Hillary Clinton. Just 23% of people think they should have taken the meeting. But the numbers diverge widely along partisan lines. 83% of Democrats say the group should not have taken the meeting, but only 36% of Republicans think it was a mistake to do so. 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