CNN’s Chalian: Country Is Polarized After the Mueller Report, Same Way It Was Two Years Ago

‘It is not an issue, we know, that the voters engage in to make voting decisions’

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CHALIAN: "Politically, it’s never going to get better than it was last Sunday from that four-page summary from Barr for the President. If the Mueller report becomes public, as, by the way, majorities of Democrats, Republicans, independents, everyone in the country agrees that the Mueller report should be made public, we don’t see that agreement on much of anything in politics, John. So assuming that the Mueller report or good chunks of it do indeed become public, those details will be get picked over in a way and it will take some of the shine off the sale that the President is trying to make on complete exoneration, though probably not with his base. And here's why. You saw in all the polling this week that came out after the Mueller report, we learned that the country was so partisan and polarized in the way they were viewing the entire investigation for two years, that didn’t change much in how they are seeing the aftereffects. So you see Republicans agreeing with the President that he’s exonerated and you see Democrats in equal numbers saying that’s absurd. Where you sit depends on how you see this. And the fact that the needle didn’t move for the President in some substantial way after Sunday, no doubt a political victory, to be clear, but I think we're right back where we have been, which is people in their partisan corners. And this is not an issue, we know, that the voters really engage on to make voting decisions."

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