Six in 10 voters say Hillary Clinton likely broke law with email: poll

Nearly six in 10 likely voters in the country think it’s likely that former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton broke the law by sending and receiving emails containing classified information through a private server while serving as the nation’s top diplomat, according to a survey released Tuesday.

Fifty-nine percent of voters in the country think it’s likely Mrs. Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner, broke the law and 34 percent said they think it’s unlikely that she did, according to the survey from Rasmussen Reports.

Forty-two percent said they think it is “very” likely she broke the law and 15 percent said they think it’s “not at all” likely.

Mrs. Clinton has maintained that she followed rules in place at the time when she set up a private email account and private server, rather than using a standard government system, as secretary of state. She says she never sent or received any material marked classified at the time.

Among Democrats, 37 percent said it’s likely she broke the law and 16 percent said they think it’s very likely.

The issue has dogged her on the campaign trail, and 51 percent of all voters said her handling of questions about her use of the private server was “poor,” compared to 28 percent who said she has done a good or excellent job handling questions about the matter.

The survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted Sept. 10 and 13 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.