Trump’s nightmare grows as the majority of voters agree with the belief

A new Morning Consult poll found that 54% of voters agree with the jury’s decision to convict Donald Trump.

Read: The Republican Presumptive Nominee for President is A Convicted Felon

Morning Consult provided the survey results to PoliticusUSA, and here are a few highlights:

-53% of registered voters have seen, read or heard “a lot” about the New York jury’s decision to convict former President Donald Trump, similar to voters who said the same immediately after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 .

– More than half (54%) of registered voters “strongly” or “somewhat” approve of the jury’s decision, while 34% disapprove.

– 76% of Republican voters said the verdict has made them less confident in the U.S. criminal justice system. While 52% of voters believe the verdict was based on evidence that Trump committed a crime, 77% of Republican voters and 43% of independent voters believe the conviction was motivated by the motivation to damage his political career.

The Morning Consult Poll was an online survey, which is notoriously unreliable, but had a large sample size of 2,200 respondents.

Problems after the verdict for Trump

Assuming these figures are correct, hardly a majority of the country has heard much about the trial and the verdict. In that case, this is terrible news for Trump, because the Democrats and their affiliated outside organizations have hundreds of millions to a billion dollars on hand to spread the word that Trump is a convicted felon.

The fact that a majority of independents do not believe Trump’s claims that the trial and verdict are politically motivated is potentially devastating for Trump for failing to unite the Republican Party. Trump can’t win the election with the Independents, and if the majority of those voters think he’s guilty, that’s a huge problem for his campaign.

Trump still has not united the Republican Party, as Morning Consult also found that 15% of Republicans want Trump to end his presidential campaign. The percentage of Republicans who do not support Trump has remained stubbornly at 15-20%, and Donald Trump cannot win without the Republican Party rallying behind him.

In what will be a very close election, there is no early sign that Trump’s message about the verdict is getting through to anyone outside his base in the Republican party, but there are indications that Democrats and their allies could use the verdict to make Trump unelectable. .

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