Democrats hoping to sink former President Donald Trump‘s reelection efforts via Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s lawfare ‘hush money‘ trial will be disappointed. A Quinnipiac University national poll conducted last week reveals that half of voters do not think Trump did anything illegal. Furthermore, a significant majority of voters said that the trial’s outcome would make no difference in their decision on election day.
The poll shows that 29 percent of voters think Trump did something unethical but not illegal, and another 21 percent say they think Trump did nothing wrong. Less than half of voters — 46 percent — believe Trump did something illegal. The 46 percent of voters who think Trump did something illegal is driven largely by Democrats. When broken down by voter registration, 85 percent of Democrats think Trump broke the law compared to just 9 percent of Republicans and 44 percent of independents. A majority of independents — 53 percent — do not think Trump broke the law.
When asked if they would be more likely or less likely to vote for Trump if he is convicted, 65 percent of voters said it would make no difference, and 11 percent said they would be more likely to vote for him. Even worse for the Democrats, those numbers are mirrored with independent voters. Sixty-three percent of independents said a conviction would make no difference in how they vote, and 11 percent said a conviction would make them more likely to vote for Trump.
However, a conviction in Bragg’s ‘hush money’ case against Trump seems less and less likely by the day. The prosecution’s star witness, serial perjurer Michael Cohen, was forced to all but admit that he lied about Trump’s knowledge of the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.
