More than half of U.S. voters surveyed said it would be a “fair outcome” if former President Trump was convicted of a “serious crime,” according to a poll released Thursday. There is.
inside New Yahoo News/YouGov poll51% of registered voters say a conviction for a “serious crime” is “a fair outcome for holding people accountable for their actions,” while 38% say it would be “politically damaging.” “This is an unfair result designed to give ”
More than half (53%) say Trump “should not be allowed” to serve as president again if convicted of these crimes, while 37% say he should be allowed. It becomes.
Opinion polls revealed deep partisan divisions. 72% of Republicans and Republican-leaning voters say a conviction would be a “politically damaging and unfair outcome.”
A slightly smaller number, 68%, said Trump should be allowed to serve as president even if he has been convicted of a crime.
Notably, a significant percentage of respondents were unaware of President Trump’s four indictments, totaling 91 felonies.
Respondents were asked to indicate what crime they thought President Trump was charged with. The poll found that 58% of respondents were most likely to correctly say that he was indicted on charges of “taking classified documents from the White House and obstructing recovery efforts.”
Meanwhile, charges related to President Trump’s efforts to disrupt the certification of the 2020 election were the least familiar to respondents. Only about half of respondents correctly said Trump was charged with “attempting to interfere with the certification of the presidential election.”
The YouGov poll was conducted among 1,594 adults between January 25 and 29 and had a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points.
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