Americans are more likely to approve than disapprove of former President Trump’s guilty verdict in the New York criminal case, according to a new poll taken just over a week after his historic conviction.
About half (48 percent) of Americans say they approve of Trump’s conviction, while 29 percent say they disapprove, and 21 percent say they neither approve nor disapprove, in AP-NORC Survey released Wednesday.
The poll – conducted from June 7 to 10, 2024 – came after a 12-person jury on May 30 found Trump guilty of 34 criminal counts of falsifying business records as part of a broader conspiracy to buy people’s silence. with potentially damaging information about then-candidate Trump before the 2016 presidential election. A $130,000 payment went to a porn actor, Stormy Daniels, who testified about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump, which he denies.
Interviewers asked American adults about the verdict in the case, describing it as a “criminal conviction in New York for falsifying business documents to cover up a secret payment to a woman who said he had an affair with her.”
There is a significant partisan divide in how Americans view the case, although Republicans are more likely to approve of the conviction than Democrats are to disapprove.
Among Republicans, 61% disapprove, 15% approve and 22% do not select either option. Among Democrats, 85% approve, 5% disapprove and 8% say nothing.
The poll is consistent with other recent polls that suggest independents are ignoring news coverage of the New York case. Independents are more likely to say they neither approve nor disapprove (48 percent), although more approve (32 percent) than disapprove (18 percent).
Eighty percent of Americans say they have heard or read “a lot” (43%) or “some” (37%) about the case, while 69% of independents say the same, including 29% who say “a lot” and 40%. percent who say “some”.
Just 20% of Americans say they have heard “just a little” (16%) or “not at all” (4%) about the case, while 31% of independents say the same, including 26% who say “just a little.” ” and 5% who say “absolutely nothing”.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey included interviews with 1,115 U.S. adults. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points.
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