Nearly half of Republicans wouldn’t vote for Trump if convicted of a felony: Poll
Julia Johnson
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Just under half of Republicans would not vote for former President Donald Trump in 2024 if he is convicted of a felony, according to a new poll.
In a survey conducted on Wednesday and Thursday, 45% of Republicans nationwide said if Trump was “convicted of a felony crime by a jury,” they would not vote for him.
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The Reuters/Ipsos poll also revealed that 35% indicated that they would vote for him regardless. All others said they didn’t know.
More than half of Republicans, 52%, said they wouldn’t vote for Trump if he were “currently serving time in prison.” Still, 28% said the former president would still have their vote.
Despite this, 75% of respondents agreed that the indictments brought against him were politically motivated. Two-thirds further said they don’t believe the most recent indictment’s assertion that Trump sought to perpetrate election fraud in an effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to special counsel Jack Smith’s four new charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Even as roughly half of Republicans say a conviction would deter their vote, the former president has seen boosts in support in Republican primary polls on each occasion that he has been indicted or received a target letter foreshadowing an imminent indictment.
In one of several posts on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump alluded to these bumps in support, saying, “I NEED ONE MORE INDICTMENT TO ENSURE MY ELECTION!”
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Talking to reporters at the airport following his not guilty plea, Trump said, “This is a persecution of a political opponent.” He has previously claimed that his indictments are part of a larger effort by the Biden administration to stifle his presidential campaign.
“This was never supposed to happen in America,” he added.