A majority of likely voters say Donald Trump’s prosecution by George Soros-backed Democrat District Attorney Alvin Bragg either makes no difference to their voting intentions or makes them more likely to vote for the former president, according to new polling by Rasmussen Reports.
The pollster sampled over a thousand likely voters in late April, asking, “In terms of this year’s presidential election, has the New York trial made you more likely or less likely to vote for Trump? Or has the trial not made much difference in how you will vote in the presidential election?”
Thirty-two percent said the trial, which Trump has called a politically motivated witch hunt, makes them more likely to vote for the former president. Forty percent say it makes little difference to them. Just 26 percent say it makes them less likely to vote for him.
Among Republican voters and voters who identify as conservative, the prosecution appears to be having an energizing effect, with 51 percent and 53 percent saying it makes them more likely to vote for Trump, respectively.
The prosecution is much less of a motivator among Democrats and liberals, with 42 percent of the former and 45 percent of the latter saying it does not make much difference to them.
Separate polling by Emerson has found that even a ‘guilty’ verdict in Bragg’s election interference case could actually be a boon for Trump, boosting him among independent voters in Arizona, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Margins are less favorable but fairly small in the other swing states of Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Wisconsin.
Recent polls have Trump leading Biden in either all seven or six of seven swing states.
A DUBIOUS CASE.
Bragg’s prosecution of Trump is dubious, to begin with. The National Pulse has detailed that it appears the entire case is now reliant on the credibility of disgraced attorney Michael Cohen. Recently, while attempting to terminate the conditions of his supervised release from federal prison, Cohen was called “perverse” by a federal judge. The request to end his sentence early was denied.
In addition, the Manhattan hush money prosecution is predicated on the idea that Bragg can charge former President Donald J. Trump with felony crimes that require an underlying federal crime to have been committed. It is important to note that the former Republican President has neither been charged nor convicted under the needed federal statute. In fact, both the Federal Election Commission and Biden’s Department of Justice declined to prosecute him for the campaign finance violations that Bragg alleges.
