this whole thing would be. and garrett haake is on capitol hill for us.lean for this whole thing would be. and garrett haake is on capitol hill for us. how much do we know so far? reporter: frankly, very little. the closest analog would be the benghazi committee, republicans still running the house, and in that case you had a 7-5 party breakdown, you had a republican chair, and you had democrats at the time in the minor it i really having a debate amongst themselves about how significantly they wanted to play a role in this, did they want to a point all the members that they were entitled to, serious members, partisan members. they ended up going the more serious route with ranking members of various committees on that select committee. republicans will have a choice, to they want to put their most partisan members on this committee, do they want to use people who have been involved in any of the other committees who have been investigating this at
september he was 50. he s back down to a near low point back in the spring. so perhaps suggesting the country overall may be tiring of this. in fact, if you look at the party breakdown for bob mueller, guys, he s down ten points among independents who approve of the way he s doing his job, that may be something he keeps in mind as he wraps this up. you mentioned will this all implicate the president in wrongdoing, about half the country thinks it will according to this brand-new poll by ssls. but take a look at this, a quarter, nearly a quarter of republicans think that mueller is likely to implicate trump in wrongdoing, independents split about evenly. finally, how is this all impacting donald trump s overall approval rating? he is back down at 39% job approval, 52% disapprove. if you look here this is about where he was right before the midterm election and a year ago he wasn t that far away at 35%.
third most populous county in the lone star state and this is a bellweather county. o rourke himself said at the beginning of his run if they re going to win texas, they re going to have to win tarant county. the early voting numbers were very, very strong. here more than 40%, about 41.5% of registered voters here cast their ballot before today. 465,000 voters. of course we don t have a party breakdown here in texas, so we don t know exactly what the s shape of the electorate is but the size is very large. the administrator here said the voting turnout surpassed even the 2012 presidential vote. cruz supporters say they re supporting him because they feel he will support president trump.
trump states, statewide senate races. in arizona, now this is the entire electorate, 28% of the electorate says immigration is the most important issue. that s up a bit from a few weeks ago. the more the president talks about it, the more it comes up. but look at it when you take a party breakdown. democrats only think, 13% of democrats think immigration is a big issue. look at this, 37%, nearly 4 in 10 republicans. again, this is rising in recent weeks as the president talks about it. he s motivating republicans by talking about this issue. nevada, again, immigration, the entire electorate, 26% say it s most important, you see health care and the economy there. it s up. in september it was 18, now it s 26. the president talks about it, it rises as an issue, especially among republicans. nearly 4 in 10 republicans say immigration is issue number one. democrats think it s health care. so, democrats using health care to motivate their voters. that was nevada. you saw arizona. tennessee.
robert mueller should be able to investigate trump s finances. we know trump warned mueller not to do so, but clearly, a healthy majority of americans believe so. it s not that simple. let s look at party breakdown. if you look at that, republicans and democrats are split by a huge amount right now. republicans believe that mueller, only 41% believe mueller should investigate trump s finances. 91% democrats. this is the number there. ind penitents, 72% is tracking with what the american people overall are saying. they are not great numbers for donald trump. let s continue on to jeff sessions. a lot of talk about him, specifically donald trump saying he should not have recused himself. 67% of americans think sessions dids the right thing by recusing himself. this is a number when you look across party lines, democrats,