Around one in six voters say that a guilty verdict in former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial will make them less likely to vote for him, according to a new poll.

  • mipadaitu@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Only 1 in 6 voters would change their mind about a convicted fraudster becoming the most powerful person in the country? And only after ANOTHER guilty verdict?

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      6 months ago

      And they’re probably lying too.

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      6 months ago

      Well, it won’t change my mind about voting for Biden either way. There’s no way I will vote for Trump.

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      6 months ago

      Technically, this would be the first guilty verdict.

      The other verdicts were in civil court, so “liable”, not “guilty”. ;)

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      I think that includes the voters who won’t vote for him regardless. Like me. Whatever the jury finds, I’m not going to vote for Donald Trump.

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      6 months ago

      1/6 voters is enough to swing it. The Texas split was 50-45. 1/6 is about 15%. .85*50=42.5 so (going with the wild assumption that Texas would have split along the same divide) if 1 in every 6 Trump supporters stay home just in Texas because of this it’s the entire election.

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      Well, one in two weren’t going to vote for him anyways so it’s closer to effectively being one in three which lines up pretty well with the observation that 70% (about 35% on either side) of the electorate are uninformed voters who just vote based on party and don’t really care who the candidate is.