The majority of the electorate would not vote for Donald Trump: While Donald Trump has a massive lead in the Republican primaries, a solid 53 percent of the general electorate say they will not vote for Trump.
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A new poll affirms what has mostly been the conventional wisdom in recent months about the 2024 race: The Republican electorate supports Donald Trump for president by huge margins. But at the same time, the former president has major problems with the overall electorate and not much support outside his base.
The poll is the latest from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
“Nearly two-thirds of Republicans — 63% — now say they want the former president to run again, according to new polling from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research,” the AP release of the poll said. “That’s up slightly from the 55% who said the same in April when Trump began facing a series of criminal charges. Seven in 10 Republicans now have a favorable opinion of Trump, an uptick from the 60% who said so two months ago.”
The same poll also says that only 43 percent of Americans asked are sure that they would never support President Biden. Both favored candidates are underwater in approval rating, but it appears more voters are adamant about never wanting to support Trump.
As he has been hit with more indictments, including this week’s in Georgia, Trump’s support among Republicans has only increased. But it hasn’t made a return by Trump to the White House any more likely.
“There is a meaningful number of voters who have voted for Trump twice and can’t vote for him again after all of this,” Sarah Longwell, an anti-Trump Republican strategist, told the AP.
The news came down Wednesday that Trump and his 18 codefendants will be “booked” at Fulton County Jail when it comes time for their processing.
“At this point, based on guidance received from the District Attorney’s office and presiding judge, it is expected that all 19 defendants named in the indictment will be booked at the Rice Street Jail,” Fulton County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Natalie Ammons told the press in a statement, published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
“Keep in mind, defendants can turn themselves in at any time,” the sheriff’s office added. “The jail is open 24/7. Also, due to the unprecedented nature of this case, some circumstances may change with little or no warning.”
Mugshots will reportedly be taken and released of the defendants.
The defendants face an August 25 deadline to turn themselves in, but they could appear before that. The former president’s lawyers are negotiating with the district attorney’s office over the terms and circumstances of his surrender, CNN reported Wednesday. As has been the case with the other indictments this year, Trump making a court appearance is a huge logistical undertaking, which must involve the Secret Service, as well as accommodating both protestors and counter-protestors.
That particular jail, per the Atlanta newspaper, “has been plagued with issues in recent years and is currently subject to a Justice Department civil rights investigation,” including prisoner deaths that have led to scrutiny.
Meanwhile, another mystery from the week of the Georgia indictment was solved Wednesday- that of how a document listing the indictments against Trump appeared briefly on the courthouse website on Monday afternoon, hours before the actual indictments were handed down. The document ended up matching the eventual real indictment.
Some nefarious motives were implied in some quarters, but the truth was much more mundane. According to WSB-TV, the Fulton County Clerk of Courts admitted Wednesday that she accidentally hit the wrong button — “send” instead of “save” — and ended up publishing the document. A reporter from Reuters saw the document and published a story about it, but the document turned out to have been posted prematurely.
“I am human,” the woman, Ché Alexander, said, “And that’s how the mishap happened.”
“It wasn’t an official document. It wasn’t official charges. It was the dry run. It was a work sample,” she added.
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