Almost half of the American voters believe that President Donald Trump’s trial in New York on so-called “hush money” charges was politically motivated.
According to a Sunday poll from ABC News/Ipsos, 47 percent of respondents said the charges brought forth by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg were politically motivated.
However, the poll showed that 38% of Americans say they were not.
The same survey also found that 50% of Americans believe Trump’s guilty verdict in the case was correct.
27% said they believed the verdict was incorrect and 23% said they “don’t know” if the conviction was correct or not.
Despite most Americans agreeing with Trump’s guilty verdict, his favorability remains unaffected.
At 31%, about a third of Americans have a favorable view of Trump.
This is compared to 29% favorability in March 2024.
Biden’s favorability also remained roughly the same following the verdict, with 32% of Americans saying they have a favorable view of Biden compared to 33% in March.
Americans’ opinion of the Trump verdict is more polarized among those who closely followed the case.
Of the 55% of Americans who said they followed the Bragg case somewhat or very closely, 57% believe the guilty verdict was correct.
35% believe the verdict was not correct, meanwhile.
Only 8% say they don’t know if the verdict was correct.
Following the guilty verdict, 49% of Americans said Trump should end his campaign, falling on strong partisan lines.
Only 16% of Republicans say Trump should end his campaign while 75% say he should continue.
Among Democrats, 79% say Trump should end his campaign and 52% of independents agree.
The poll surveyed 781 adults between May 31 through June 1 with a margin of error of 3.7 percentage points.
Meanwhile, President Trump’s re-election campaign has seen an unprecedented inflow of donations since his verdict last week.
As Slay News reported, Trump has raised more than $200 million in donations since the Manhattan jury returned a guilty verdict against him.
The revelation was made by one of the president’s sons, Eric Trump.
Lara Trump, Republican National Committee co-chair, is the wife of the president’s son.
“This might be a little inside information,” he told Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo.
“I was leaving my house about 37 seconds ago, I asked my wife, ‘What are we up to now?’” he said.
“And [Lara] said, just in terms of small dollar, we’re well over $70 million.
“This is $21 donations, $43 donations, right, small-dollar donations.”
“If you add the large dollar donations to it, you’re over $200 million,” he continued.
Eric Trump noted that “30 percent of those people have never been seen before by a political party.”
He revealed that first-time political donors are flooding Trump’s campaign with donations.
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