Posted on 06/06/2024 9:22:18 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Careful what you wish for, Democrats.
Democrats salivated for the opportunity to campaign on former President Trump's criminal convictions. He's a convicted felon. Guess what is happening? Trump is receiving more support than ever.
This was pretty easy to predict for anyone paying attention. In this presidential election year, the more Donald Trump is indicted, the more support he receives in the polls. It turns out that Americans don't like lawfare being used against a former president and leading presidential candidate in a presidential election year.
Voters don't like what they are seeing from Democrats. Democrat lawyers and prosecutors are targeting Trump to keep him busy with legal challenges and off the campaign trail. It stinks of election interference.
Democrats tend to overplay their hand, though, and the hush money trial in Manhattan is the latest example. FAFO. According to the latest I&I/TIPP poll taken as Trump's trial convictions played out, the former president rose in the poll.
The poll was taken from Wednesday, May 29, through Friday, May 31. The verdict against Trump in New York state court was rendered on Thursday, May 30. So a significant share of the 1,675 registered voters who took the national online I&I/TIPP Poll actually knew that Trump had been found guilty of 34 felony counts.
I think voters either just don't care about the guilty verdict on all counts or they are numb to the convictions. Donald Trump has been persecuted almost since he was elected and at a certain point, it is all baked into voter reactions. It's overkill.
Both of the top two candidates have been president and have records to run on. Voters think back to Trump's presidency and say they want to go back to that. The only people who feel better now than four years ago are illegal aliens. I don't need a poll to tell me that.
The guilty verdicts increased Trump's support.
In the head-to-head poll between President Joe Biden and Trump, it’s now a statistical toss-up, 41% to 41%. But that’s an improvement for Trump from May, when he trailed Biden by 2 percentage points in that month’s I&I/TIPP poll (42% Biden to 40% Trump). The June poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percentage points.
A statistical toss-up, eh? If Trump is destroying democracy, as I have been assured that he is doing by the Democrats, why isn't Biden out front by a giant leap after the verdicts? It's because even the voters who weren't paying a whole lot of attention to the trial in Manhattan realize how deeply unfair it was. If Trump was not running for re-election, it would have never been prosecuted. This was a part of the Get Trump agenda in deep blue Manhattan. It is where D.A. Bragg and Leticia James ran on a Get Trump agenda. It was all rigged from the jump.
The most important finding in the poll is the one on Independent voters. They are the ones who decide elections, especially in battleground states. What do they say now? It's not even close. Trump easily wins 38% to 26% in a head-to-head matchup.
What about when third-party (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.) and independent candidates enter the consideration?
As one can guess, the totals for Biden and Trump shrink a bit with third-party challengers, but still show a 38% to 38% tie, with RFK Jr. at 10% (down from 12% in May), West at 1%, and Stein and “other” at 2%.
It's still a tie.
Independents still look to favor Trump, no matter how you slice it.
In May, 33% of independents supported Trump, 25% Biden, 18% RFK Jr. and 6% “other.” In June, that had become 31% Trump, 22% Biden, 18% RFK Jr., and 5% “other.” That shift among independents, who make up about 28% of the I&I/TIPP responses, seems to favor Trump.
This is just one poll but it is important to check because it shows results since the guilty verdicts came down. It will take more time for the dust to settle but this isn't going the way that Democrats hoped it would. Too bad, so sad. Not.
The best is yet to come!
This little punk bastard Biden’s going to have hell to pay if we ever get him out of power.
All it’s doing is giving him street cred with some of the brothers.....
If Biden manages to hang on and the dems can’t replace him, the RFK Jr. is going to start pulling really heavily on the Biden vote.
Yup.
1980 v. 2.0
Trump landslide as Ronaldus Magnus II
Well how can that be, Newsweak just told me that Biden is closing the gap in the swing states. (/Sarc)
In Nazi-occupied countries, it could be seen as a badge of shame if you DIDN’T have a rap sheet with the occupying Gestapo. We’re getting to that point here in the U.S.
Many people see that the so-called felonies are such a joke.
This whole business of falsifying business records as a crime was a stretch to start with, because no one was defrauded.
Trump was prosecuted based on an alleged erroneous bookkeeping Ledger entry. And the liberal view that this is a crime against humanity, in that payments to Cohen were labeled as legal fees rather than being labeled as reimbursement for the non-disclosure agreement with Stormy Daniels.
I know the MSNBC crowd considers this to be a crime against humanity , but most normal people see this as being a really really contrived situation, which didn’t need to be in a court room.
And then somehow Alvin Bragg made the misdemeanor offense into a felony charge through some untested legal machinations.
So then the MSNBC crowd can act all shocked and awed that Trump was convicted of felonies.
Is this a joke, or a real chyron?
If there’s something you can count on it’s dems overplaying their hand. For them “way too much” is just barely enough. It reflects their deep narcissism and contempt for average people.
CC
I think if he went to jail, he would be safe. He would offer protection money...and people have their price. He would be a celebrity there. Instead of cowering and being afraid, he would manage things.
The Lefties would go “SCREEE SCREEE SCREEE”...:)
The people who have put him in this position have to be wondering how their plan is going to turn out if it comes to that.
No wonder people in other countries watch our politics in amazement. I would find it hilarious if I didn’t feel that all of us are embroiled in it because we can’t escape it.
I wonder where that guy is working now.
CC
It actually happened
The guy was quitting to go to work for Tucker Carlson after TC had been let go
So this guy went out with a big one, LOL
I searched for it. It’s real.
He was supposedly already quitting to go to work for Tucker
Well, that’s landing on your feet.
CC
If Joe really wants to know why all those indictments have had so little effect on Trump’s popularity, he needs to review Nancy Pelosi and all those “impeachments” of Trump.
Those actions by the Dems have de-fanged the very term of what a presidential impeachment used to mean. Pelosi and het minions acted out of spite and pettiness. That was always clear to anyone really paying attention.
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