Republican strategist Karl Rove said Saturday that former President Trump has been falling in the polls since his conviction in the New York silence case.
“I agree, actually, take a look at the evidence,” Rove said when asked by Fox News host Paul Gigot on “The Journal Editorial Report” if he agrees there is “movement toward” President Biden in the polls following the conviction.
Rove also held up a whiteboard that appeared to list the polls.
“Here it is,” Rove continued. “These are the polls since June 1st. If they are in red, Donald Trump won, if they are in blue, Joe Biden is leading and if they are in green, it is a tie. And take a look, as of the first of the month, where is Trump up by one, Trump up by two, Trump up by one, Biden up by one, a tie, Trump up by two, Biden up by two, tie, Biden increased by two. So there has been a trend since the… May 30 guilty verdict in the New York case.”
According to the average of national polls from The Hill/Decision Desk HQ, Trump is ahead of Biden by just 0.6 percentage points, with 44.5% compared to the current president’s 43.9%.
The former president became the first former US president to be granted criminal status last month, after a jury found him guilty on all counts of falsifying business records to hide alleged affairs during his campaign. 2016.
Biden and Trump are set to debate next week for the first time since 2020, and Rove has previously said a debate between Biden and Trump would be the most significant in decades.
“This will be the most important presidential debate, if it happens, since at least the 1980 presidential debate,” Rove said on Fox News to host Martha MacCallum in April.
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