--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Most Americans Think Donald Trump Jr. Should Not Have Taken Russia Meeting  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Jul 21, 2017 3:26 PM UTC  Donald Trump Jr. stands in an elevator at Trump Tower in New York, on Jan. 18, 2017. Donald Trump Jr. stands in an elevator at Trump Tower in New York, on Jan. 18, 2017.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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