A new survey finds that more than two-thirds of voters believe former President Trump’s conviction in his hush money criminal trial will not affect their vote.
Marist Poll, Released ThursdayAccording to the poll, 67% of respondents said a guilty verdict in the case would not affect their vote, while 17% said it would make them less likely to vote for the former president. About 15% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote if Trump was convicted.
Trump faces 34 felony charges of falsifying business records in the case, the first criminal trial of a sitting or former president. Prosecutors allege that Trump illegally concealed hush money he paid porn actress Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 election and used it to cover up allegations of an affair he had had in the past, charges he denies.
The case went to jury deliberations early Wednesday morning.
Just over three-quarters of respondents said that if Trump were acquitted, it would not affect their vote. Similarly, 9% said they would be less likely to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee, while 14% said they would be more likely to choose Trump.
The survey also found that about two-thirds of voters are already sure of who they’ll vote for in November’s presidential election and aren’t planning on changing their mind no matter what — just 7% of respondents were undecided.
Among those who said they would definitely vote, 73% said they had already made up their mind, according to the survey results.
The Marist poll, sponsored by NPR and the PBS NewsHour, was conducted May 21-23 among about 1,200 adults and has a margin of error of about 3.4 percentage points.
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