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WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than half of Americans say they're bothered by Russian hacks of Democratic emails in an effort to help Donald Trump win the election, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows.
Fifty-five percent of Americans say they are at least quite a bit concerned about the Russian hacks, the poll shows. There is a sharp partisan divide, with 86 percent of Democrats saying they are concerned compared with 29 percent of Republicans.
However, most Americans do not believe Russian hacking influenced the outcome of the election.
Just 37 percent say they believe Russian hacking helped Trump defeat Hillary Clinton, while 57 percent say they think it had no impact.
Broadly, at 31 percent, more Americans said Trump is "too friendly" toward Russian President Vladimir Putin than the 24 percent who said he's "not too friendly." Another 44 percent had no opinion.
And about 50 percent of Americans said they approved of Trump's handling of the transition, while 41 percent disapprove, the survey shows. That approval number is significantly below President Barack Obama's in 2008 (73 percent) and Bill Clinton's in 1992 (77 percent).
The poll of 1,000 adults was conducted December 12-15 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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