TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

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TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS - Lemmy.ca

Do you guys think this matters to his voters/supporters?

There’s some evidence to suggest he’ll lose significant support: …yougov.com/…/48654-would-donald-trump-conviction…

But hard to know for sure.

Would a Trump conviction move his voters? Evidence from past and present polls | YouGov

A lesson from the Bill Clinton impeachment 25 years ago suggests we ought to be wary of the latest results about potential Trump convictions.

I suspect some people will mental gymnastics themselves into thinking this isn’t a serious crime, and stipulating an abstract ‘serious crime’ yields more extreme results than we’ll see as a result of this verdict.

But a few percentage point swing in a few key states is enough to ensure a Biden victory, so it may be enough.

The fact of the matter is for a lot of white Americans it’s either support the republican nominee or those scary minorities will take over. To them, a white criminal is preferable to what they see as guliable saps at best or race traitors at worst.