Former President Donald Trump made history Thursday by becoming the first former president convicted of a crime.
But the survey data NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist that fell earlier in the day showed a common theme across parties and demographics.
Voters are ambivalent about the outcome of the case.
Two-thirds of voters (67 percent) told pollsters that a guilty outcome of Trump’s case to keep Trump secret would have no impact on their vote in the fall.
The group most likely to decide the fate of Trump and President Joe Biden, independents, cared even less.
On Thursday, former President Donald Trump became the first former president in US history to be convicted of a crime, as he is also his party’s presumptive 2024 presidential nominee.
NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist polling data released early Thursday showed a common theme across parties and demographics: that. The votes of most Americans would not change if Trump were found guilty.
The poll found that 74 percent of independents said a guilty verdict would not change their vote.
That compares with 65 percent of Democrats and 64 percent of Republicans.
Additionally, 25 percent of Republicans responded that they would be more likely to vote for Trump if he were found guilty in the hush money case.
On Thursday afternoon, a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records. related to money payments paid to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.
Overall, only 15 percent of voters said they would be more likely to vote for him if this outcome occurred, while 17 percent said they would be less likely.
The Marist survey was carried out from May 21 to 23, when the secret money trial was already underway.
Voters shrugged their shoulders when asked whether Trump’s conviction would affect their vote in the general election, a poll released Thursday indicated.
A previous PBS NewsHour/NPR poll on Mariswhich was published on May 1, also found that the electorate was largely uninterested in the trial.
In that survey, 55 percent of Americans said they were paying little or no attention to the secret money trial.
That poll also found that 45 percent of Americans said Trump’s investigations are unfair and designed to obstruct the 2024 presidential election.
In both polls, Biden maintained a slight lead over Trump nationally (50 percent to 48 percent), which is within the poll’s plus or minus 3.7 percent margin of error.
However, recent polls in swing states show Biden trailing Trump in several battleground states.
