More than half of swing-state voters would not have voted for Donald Trump in the upcoming 2024 presidential race if he had been convicted of a felony, according to a new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll.
A poll of voters in seven warring states showed that 53 percent of respondents would not vote for the former president if he was guilty of a crime. Additionally, if Trump (77) were sentenced to prison, the number would increase to 55%.
Bloomberg/Morning Consult surveyed a sample of 4,956 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin from January 16 to 22, 2024. Participants varied by gender, age, race, marital status, home ownership, 2020 presidential election and country of residence.
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Donald Trump in Nashua, New Hampshire on January 23, 2024.
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Since leaving office, the former president has been charged with a total of 91 criminal counts in four separate criminal cases, each of which is awaiting trial.
In March 2023, Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of first-degree falsifying business records following an investigation into an alleged secret payment he made to adult film star Stormy Daniels while he was a 2016 presidential candidate. The trial begins March 25 in New York, PBS reported.
In June 2023, a federal grand jury indicted Trump. The indictment alleges that Trump withheld more than 100 classified documents with some of the most sensitive topics coming from seven intelligence agencies, including the CIA, the NSA and the Department of Defense. He was charged with 40 different counts. The trial begins on May 20, 2024 in Fort Pierce, Florida, PBS reported.
Every crime Donald Trump has been charged with this year
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Donald Trump on January 23, 2024 in Nashua, New Hampshire.
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On August 1, 2023, a federal grand jury investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot indicted Trump on four felony counts. According to the indictment, Trump is charged with one count each of conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstructing and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy to violate the law.
The trial could begin on March 4. However, Judge Tanya Chutkan said it could be postponed to a later date, Politico reported.
Two weeks later, Trump was indicted in a fourth criminal investigation related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 Georgia election. He was indicted on 13 counts. Prosecutors have proposed a trial date of August 5, 2024, PBS reported.
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Donald Trump in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 27, 2024.
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Additionally, four days after the survey closed on January 26, Trump was ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million for making defamatory statements about the writer and denying that he sexually assaulted her in the 1990s, as found by a jury in a civil trial .
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