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Plurality Of Americans Believe Trump Trial Was Politically Motivated; New Poll Finds
American Greatness ^ | 06/05/2024 | Eric Lundrum

Posted on 06/05/2024 7:00:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

A new poll shows that a sizable plurality of the American people believe that the New York trial of former President Donald Trump was a politically-motivated show trial.

As the Daily Caller reports, the ABC News/Ipsos poll shows that 47% of Americans believe the trial was indeed a political hit job, while 38% say that the trial was legitimate and fair.

On the question of the “guilty” verdict, 50% of respondents believe the verdict was correct; by contrast, just 27% believe the verdict was wrong, while the remaining 23% said they “don’t know” what to believe with regards to the verdict.

Among those who claimed to have followed the case closely, 55% say the verdict was correct while 35% say it was incorrect; another 8% said they “don’t know.”

After the verdict was announced, 49% of respondents said that Trump should end his campaign for re-election.

Among partisan lines, just 16% of Republicans said Trump should drop out while 75% want him to continue his candidacy. Among Democrats, 79% want Trump to drop out now, while 52% of independents say the same thing.

The same poll also showed that the trial and its outcome have had virtually no effect on Trump’s approval ratings, and may have even led to a slight increase. While the former president had a 29% favorability in March, his favorability currently sits at 31%. Biden’s favorability is at 32%, a slight decrease from 33% in March.

The poll featured a sample size of 781 American adults, and was conducted from May 31st to June 1st. The margin of error is 3.7%.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conviction; hushmoney; stormydaniels; trump

1 posted on 06/05/2024 7:00:25 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Another abc/Oopsie “Poll”. There you go! It’s good to know that U.S. residents spend all day watching the Liberal Trumpy Trials will the Illegal Alien Invaders are destroying America.


2 posted on 06/05/2024 7:04:56 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: SeekAndFind

The people who hate Trump and any Republican did not answer this poll honestly.


3 posted on 06/05/2024 7:06:16 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: CatOwner

“Plurality Of Americans Believe Trump Trial Was Politically Motivated;” Plurality? Plurality? Americans are even more stupid than I thought possible.


4 posted on 06/05/2024 7:09:38 AM PDT by Bookshelf (Tto)
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To: SeekAndFind

So now in America, you may be a felon if you label your legal expenses as “legal expenses”. And a significant percentage of Americans are okay with this.


5 posted on 06/05/2024 7:13:45 AM PDT by Chgogal (To paraphrase Biden: You vote Democrat? You ain't smart.)
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To: SeekAndFind
From the article:

Among those who claimed to have followed the case closely, 55% say the verdict was correct while 35% say it was incorrect; another 8% said they “don’t know.”

If this is even anywhere close to being accurate, the survival of this constitutional republic is in greater jeopardy than we previously thought.
6 posted on 06/05/2024 7:15:28 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: SeekAndFind

If these numbers are even close to accurate, a shockingly large number of Americans are total idiots. Anyone who thinks that this “guilty” verdict is correct is either (1) not familiar with the details of the case; (2) a partisan Trump-hater who couldn’t care less about the facts and the law; (3) a gullible sucker who swallows mainstream media propaganda; or (4) all of the above.


7 posted on 06/05/2024 7:16:07 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: SeekAndFind

Politico no friend of Trump had it at 62%


8 posted on 06/05/2024 7:16:19 AM PDT by wardaddy (. A disease in the public mind we're enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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“Among those who claimed to have followed the case closely, 55% say the verdict was correct while 35% say it was incorrect; another 8% said they “don’t know.””

If this poll is legitimate (it is ABC after all), it only shows two things.

1. The conspiracy of the Democrats and the MSM to demonize DJT/MAGA/Conservatives is working as planned.

and

2. Ignorance runs rampant in the United States.

If 55% of those polled believe the verdict was correct - even though no underlying crime as been named and there was no direct evidence, then God help us all . . .


9 posted on 06/05/2024 7:17:47 AM PDT by MCSETots
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To: SeekAndFind
So he asked Stormy Daniels to blackmail him with the intention of forming a conspiracy to pay her off....

"Cohen said..."I'll get right on it boss"{.

10 posted on 06/05/2024 7:18:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

Can we suspect much of the polled believed Russia Russia Russia?


11 posted on 06/05/2024 7:21:18 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: CatOwner

No dem or Rino does.


12 posted on 06/05/2024 7:23:41 AM PDT by GailA (Land Grabs, Poisoned Food, KILL the COWS, Bidenomics=BIDEN DEPRESSION. STAGNATION)
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To: SeekAndFind

Plurality Of Americans Believe the Sun Rises in the East Every Day


13 posted on 06/05/2024 7:31:04 AM PDT by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: SeekAndFind; All
Thank you for referencing that article SeekAndFind.

"Plurality Of Americans Believe Trump Trial Was Politically Motivated; New Poll Finds"


I cannot “cast the first stone,” but elite Democrats tend to bear false witness against their neighbors imo.


14 posted on 06/05/2024 7:44:13 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: SeekAndFind

Hilarious

A push poll to start the mantra “Trump out now!”

Nobody believes there was any legitimacy to the charges or the trial except the hard core 30% that is the Rat party base


15 posted on 06/05/2024 7:55:30 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind
PS

Expel NY

Deport Merchan


16 posted on 06/05/2024 7:58:36 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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That 30 % does not believe it either. They simply want trump gone, regardless how.


17 posted on 06/05/2024 7:59:33 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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To: going hot

Yer correct of course...


18 posted on 06/05/2024 8:05:03 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: SeekAndFind

BS polls. Way more people that that believe the trial was a sham. Even many democrats see it.


19 posted on 06/05/2024 9:09:00 AM PDT by Revel
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To: SeekAndFind

oh that is what i am supposed to think

thank you abc


20 posted on 06/05/2024 1:29:10 PM PDT by joshua c
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