His polls look good, but many are worried he won’t be treated fairly legally: Republicans seem quick to dismiss the multiple indictments and civil lawsuits against former President Donald Trump as politically motivated legal warfare. A Quinnipiac poll finds that Trump enjoys 57 percent support among Republicans despite the indictments, compared with 23 percent for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
The Real Clear Politics Average puts Donald Trump at 52.1 percent compared with 21 percent for DeSantis.
Support for Donald Trump
Comments by former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff attacking U.S. District Court Judge Aileen Cannon for apparently having a lack of vindictiveness against the former president are interesting to say the least.
“The ruling she made earlier, the appointment of a special master is so unprecedented that it does betray a real bias here and cause her judgments to be called into question,” Schiff said.
Schiff’s comment about Cannon reinforces the perception that many Republicans have that Trump faces legal jeopardy because Democrats fear him and believe they cannot beat him fair and square at the ballot box. He was a key proponent of pushing the fabricated Russia collusion narrative during the Trump administration and was a key figure in impeaching the former president.
Such a statement betrays a perceived attitude among Democrats that Trump does not deserve a fair trial and that he is convicted without presenting arguments before a jury. American forefathers crafted the legal system with the idea of having a defendant presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Polling taken after the indictment showed that 81 percent of Republicans felt that Trump was being targeted for political reasons.
Sixty-two percent told a Reuters/Ipsos poll taken after the indictments that they believe that Trump illegally stored classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Thirty-five percent of Republicans thought he had, while 91 percent of Democrats said he had.
Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a 37-count indictment claiming that the former president willfully and knowingly held onto classified documents related to defense and intelligence-collection matters that he lacked a right to.
Biden Leads Trump Nationally
The Quinnipiac poll also shows that President Joe Biden leads 48 percent to 44 percent. Among Independents, Biden leads Trump by 45 percent to 42 percent. Trump leads Biden among men nationwide by a 48 percent to 41 percent margin, while Biden leads Trump by a 53 percent to 40 percent margin.
“A federal indictment. A court date on a litany of charges. A blizzard of critical media coverage. The negative impact on the former president’s standing with voters? Not much at all,” said Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy.
The poll was conducted June 8-12.
An Economist poll taken June 10-13 finds Trump and Biden tied at 41 percent apiece.
When it comes to Trump’s favorability rating, he stood at 59 percent unfavorable compared with 37 percent favorable rating. Biden is slightly less unfavorable than Trump with a 54 percent unfavorable and 42 percent favorable rating.
The poll found that only Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had more people favoring him than disfavoring him, by a 31 percent to 26 percent margin, with 43 percent saying they did not know him well enough to have an opinion.
John Rossomando was a senior analyst for Defense Policy and served as Senior Analyst for Counterterrorism at The Investigative Project on Terrorism for eight years. His work has been featured in numerous publications such as The American Thinker, The National Interest, National Review Online, Daily Wire, Red Alert Politics, CNSNews.com, The Daily Caller, Human Events, Newsmax, The American Spectator, TownHall.com, and Crisis Magazine. He also served as senior managing editor of The Bulletin, a 100,000-circulation daily newspaper in Philadelphia, and received the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors first-place award for his reporting.
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