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razoo » 19 Aug 2023, 4:04 am » wrote: ↑

19 Aug 2023, 4:04 am

On Trump indictments, polls tell GOP what it doesn’t want to hearWith Democrats largely steering clear of the political fight over Donald Trump’s indictments, would Americans believe GOP talking points? Apparently not. 

 In the wake of Donald Trump’s four criminal indictments, a variety of Republicans have suggested that the public would “see through” prosecutors’ efforts and reject the indictments’ legitimacy. The “American people,” assorted GOP voices have said, will side with the former president.

There’s fresh evidence pointing in the opposite direction. From the latest national polling report from Quinnipiac University.

Tim Malloy, a Quinnipiac polling analyst, explained, “Not only do a large majority of Americans regard the federal charges as serious, more than half of Americans think the former president should face prosecution.”

Not surprisingly, the partisan gaps were enormous — 95% of Democrats think Trump should be criminally prosecuted for his post-defeat efforts, 85% of Republicans do not — but the survey results found that independents are not siding with the former president: By a 57%-to-37% margin, Quinnipiac found independent voters agreeing that Trump should be prosecuted.

The top-line results do not appear to be an outlier: The latest poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which was conducted shortly before this week’s Fulton County indictment, also found that 53% of Americans “approve of the Justice Department indicting Trump over his efforts to remain in office after losing the 2020 election.”

This comes on the heels of related polling from June, which also found a narrow majority of Americans supporting the criminal charges against Trump in his classified documents case. 

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-sho ... rcna100631