Fewer Americans believe former President Trump’s trial in New York will end in conviction, according to a YouGov/Economist survey released Thursday.
The drop, noted by respondents on both sides of the aisle, compares to a similar survey from last month.
About 39% of Democrats said in late April that Trump would be convicted. Now the number is 34%.
Among independents, 21% believed in the conviction at the end of last month; is at 17 percent in the new survey. With Republican Party voters, this belief dropped from 17% to 14%.
Overall, just 22% of Americans think Trump will be convicted in the Manhattan case. Trump faces 34 criminal charges for falsifying business records related to reimbursements to his former fixer, Michael Cohen, who paid porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep silent about the alleged affair she claimed to have had in 2006 with ex-president.
According to a similar poll released in mid-April, 24% of Americans thought Trump would be convicted, while 36% said the former president would not end up with a conviction.
Opinion about the seriousness of the case has also changed slightly since the end of April.
About 90 percent of Democrats believe the case is “very or “somewhat” serious, an increase of 5 points.
The increases with independent and Republican voters were marginal.
Now, around half, 50 percent of independents, believe the case is serious, 3 percentage points more than at the end of April. With the Republicans, it grew from 23% to 25%.
The survey was conducted May 5-7 among 1,813 U.S. adults. The margin of error was 3%.
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