Georgia voters are roughly evenly split on former President Trump’s conviction in the hush-money case in New York last week, according to a new poll.
In a new poll, Published by Quinnipiac University Wednesday’s survey found that 50 percent of voters support the hush money ruling, while 44 percent oppose it.
Georgia is a key state in the 2024 election campaign. Biden won in 2020, but Trump is seen as favored, with the latest Decision Desk HQ/The Hill polling average showing him ahead.
The poll was conducted four days after the former president was found guilty last week of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in a hush-money fraud scandal.
The allegations stemmed from a 2016 payment of $130,000 to Trump’s former fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen, to repay porn star Stormy Daniels an alleged affair she had had in the past.
Polls showed Georgia voters’ opinions of the historic ruling differed sharply along party lines.
Among Democrats, an overwhelming 96% favored the sentence and just 1% opposed it, while about 86% of Republicans opposed a conviction and just 10% supported it, the poll showed.
Independents were split evenly, with 52 percent in favor of the decision and 42 percent opposed.
About 22% of voters said a conviction made them less likely to vote for Trump, while 23% said a conviction made them more likely to vote for him.
More than half of respondents (54%) said it would not affect their vote.
Polls show President Trump holding a slim five-point lead over President Biden in head-to-head contests.
“Half of voters in key states won by Biden in 2020 support convicting Trump, making him the first president convicted of a felony, yet Trump still has an advantage in the 2024 election,” Tim Malloy, a polling analyst at Quinnipiac University, said in a statement.
Georgia will ultimately become the scene of another legal battle for President Trump, who and several associates face criminal charges in connection with an alleged scheme to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The election interference case brought by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is likely not going to trial until November as an appeals process to remove Willis from the case plays out.
The Quinnipiac University poll was conducted May 30-June 3 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
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