Americans are more likely to support former President Trump’s conviction in his New York criminal case than to oppose it, according to a new poll conducted just over a week after the historic conviction.
Nearly half of Americans surveyed (48%) said they supported convicting Trump, while 29% disapproved and 21% were undecided. Associated Press/NORC Poll It was released on Wednesday.
The poll, conducted June 7-10, 2024, came after a 12-person jury on May 30 returned a guilty verdict against Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records as part of a broader conspiracy to bribe the silence of people with information that could be damaging to then-candidate Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election. One of the $130,000 payments was made to Stormy Daniels, a porn actress who testified about an alleged sexual relationship with Trump, which she denies.
The interviewer asked U.S. adults about the sentence in the case, which he described as “a felony conviction in New York state for falsifying business documents to conceal hush money payments to women he claimed to have had extramarital affairs with.”
There are strong partisan divides in how Americans view the case, but Republicans are more likely to support conviction than Democrats are opposed.
Among Republicans surveyed, 61% disapproved, 15% supported, and 22% chose neither option. Among Democrats surveyed, 85% supported, 5% disapproved, and 8% were undecided.
The findings are consistent with other recent polls that suggest independents are not listening to the coverage of the New York attacks. Independents surveyed are also more likely to say they are undecided (48%), but more likely to support (32%) than disapprove (18%).
Eighty percent of Americans surveyed said they had heard or read about the incident “a lot” (43%) or “somewhat” (37%), while 69% of independents surveyed said the same, with 29% saying “a lot” and 40% saying “somewhat.”
Only 20% of Americans surveyed said they knew “a little” (16%) or “nothing at all” (4%) about the incident, compared with 31% of independents who said the same, with 26% saying they knew “a little” and 5% saying they knew “nothing at all.”
The Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Policy Research poll includes interviews with 1,115 U.S. adults and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
