Posted on 08/27/2023 8:39:40 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
The survey asked Republicans and Republican-leaners, “If Trump is convicted of a serious crime in the coming months, who would you vote for in your state’s 2024 Republican primary?”
In that scenario, Trump still maintains a double-digit lead among his GOP challengers with 35 percent support. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis comes 15 points behind with 20 percent support, followed by anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy (nine percent), South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (five percent), and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former Vice President Mike Pence, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, all of whom see three percent support each. Another 17 percent say they are “not sure.”
Notably, the survey was taken August 17-21, 2023, prior to both the first Republican primary debate and the release of Trump’s now-famous mugshot.
Trump did not participate in the debate and instead engaged in counter-programming, as his interview with Tucker Carlson dropped five minutes prior to the start of the 9:00 p.m. EDT debate.
Most post-debate analysis, however, ceased Thursday evening after all attention turned to Trump’s arrest. He was booked by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office on charges stemming from District Attorney Fani Willis’s indictment — his fourth indictment in a matter of months.
Trump shared an image of his mugshot to social media, including X, formerly known as Twitter, with a message: “ELECTION INTERFERENCE. NEVER SURRENDER! DONALDJTRUMP.COM.”
https://t.co/MlIKklPSJT pic.twitter.com/Mcbf2xozsY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2023
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As you know, you have many people that you’ve been watching over the years do the same thing, whether it’s Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others. When you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to. Otherwise, you can have very dishonest elections.
“What has taken place here is a travesty of justice. We did nothing wrong. I did nothing wrong. And everybody knows it. I’ve never had such support, and that goes with the other ones, too,” Trump added.
🚨President Trump makes 1st statement since leaving jail:
“You should be able to challenge an election.
I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election.
What has taken place here is a travesty of justice."
pic.twitter.com/vjAKq3gISv— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 25, 2023
BTTT
While he may be convicted, he perpetrated no crime.
The forgot to put quotation marks around the word “crime.”
Even if? The more they mistreat him, the more of a martyr he will become. Everyone knows (including those that pretend not to know) that the charges are B.S. Trump became popular by his willingness to stand up and not wilt under abuse while advocating for the people the abusers hold in contempt. Coming after him harder will not help them. However they are in a downward spiral and can not help themselves. They know they are wrong but can not admit it and will keep abusing him as much as they can in hopes that it somehow eventually vindicates their distorted view of reality.
Trump is either clueless or is being deliberately obtuse. No one is denying you cannot challenge an election. Bush did it, Gore did it, and so on. All through November and December when Trump challenged the 2020 election in the courts, no one denied him the right to do that or called him an insurrectionist. At the most they made fun of him or his clown car of lawyers like Giuliani, but they reported on it factually as the cases unfolded in the courts, and no one in November or December 2020 said Trump could not challenge the election in the courts.
The proper place to challenge the election is in the courts, and once you lose, you need to move on, which Trump refused to do.
60% of Democrats say they’ll vote for Biden even if is put in a home for Dementia, new study shows. I can do it too...
“The proper place to challenge the election is in the courts, and once you lose, you need to move on, which Trump refused to do.”
That’s why he needs to be in jail.
We get it.
Meatball needs to drop out he’s become just one of the losers he really blew it possibly for good
Scott Walker was a very successful governor. How’d that work out for him?
“Poll: Donald Trump Still Leads GOP Race by Double Digits, Even if Convicted of a Crime”
Poll: Donald Trump Still Leads GOP Race by Double Digits, Even if Convicted of an imaginary Crime
Who woulda thought.
I’m voting for him, regardless of what happens.
I don’t know how they can hold the Donald’s alleged phonyass crimes against him when America’s #1 Crime family is sitting in the White House and being visited by crack addicts.
Worthless.
Trump has decided to test his claim that he could shoot someone in Times Square and nothing would happen to him.
We need to do what ever it takes to make it so our choice is Trump vs RFK. Operation Chaos
MAGA people don’t care if Trump is convicted by a kangaroo court.
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