Former President Trump’s conviction in the hush money case could turn some independent voters away from him, a new poll finds.
The Politician/Ipsos survey found that 21 percent of independents said they are less likely to vote for Trump after conviction, adding that the guilty verdict in the Trump silence case is very important to how they will vote in November. Five percent of independents said the verdict was an important factor and that the conviction makes them more likely to support Trump.
Only a small portion of Republicans surveyed said they would be less likely to support the former president after his conviction.
Forty-one percent of Republicans said the conviction had no impact on their support for Trump and was not important in how they would vote. Twenty-eight percent of Republicans said they were more likely to support Trump and that the guilty verdict was not important in how they voted.
Just 7% of Republicans said they were less likely to support Trump and that conviction was important in determining their vote.
A New York jury found Trump guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business charges last month after hearing weeks of testimony from key witnesses. The former president has repeatedly criticized the case, labeling it as politically motivated.
His sentencing is scheduled for July 11, just four days before the Republican National Committee’s national convention, where he will likely be formally nominated as the Republican Party’s presidential candidate.
Republicans in the new poll were also more likely to say the trial of silence was not fair. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans said the verdict was not “the result of a fair and impartial judicial process,” while 27 percent of independents and 5 percent of Democrats said the same.
The poll also found that 63 percent of Republicans said President Biden was directly involved in the Manhattan district attorney’s decision to pursue the New York state case against Trump. Twenty-three percent of independents said the same, according to the survey.
President Biden in late May condemned Trump’s baseless claims of a biased legal system as “reckless” and “dangerous.”
The new survey was conducted June 7-9 among 1,027 U.S. residents. It has a margin of error of 3.2 percentage points.
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