Polling shows that people are taking his crimes seriously
His middle of the night tantrums are getting worse and I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s because his campaign has polled this too:
A majority of U.S. voters consider the criminal charges in New York related to a hush money payment against former President Trump to be serious, per new polling.
Trump is days away from the start of the first trial out of the four criminal cases against him, while electioneering for the presidency.
The New York trial, set to start on April 15 with jury selection, concerns a 2016 payment allegedly made to adult film actress Stormy Daniels.
About 4 in 10 Republican respondents considered the hush money charges to be serious.
Two-thirds of independents also deemed the charges serious.
64% of registered voters described the charges as at least “somewhat serious,” according to Reuters/Ipsos poll data published Wednesday.
34% said the charges lacked seriousness.
The rest were unsure or didn’t answer.
Appeals courts twice this week denied attempts from Trump’s legal team to delay the start of the trial.
Trump’s legal team has employed delay tactics in proceedings across the four jurisdictions where he faces criminal charges — and it’s currently not clear whether the three other cases will go to trial before the election.
Voters, already disillusioned with their candidate options in the 2024 election, considered charges in the other ongoing cases more serious, per Reuters/Ipsos.
About 74% of respondents said the charges of election fraud in Georgia against Trump were serious.
Does this guarantee that the trial will move numbers away from Trump? Not necessarily. But I think an awful lot of people have concluded that Trump will never have to face a jury for his criminal offenses and yet here he is. It may make some of them think a little bit. Maybe.