May 16, 2024

Most Voters Believe Democrats ‘Engaged in Lawfare’ in Trump Trials

Most voters assume Democrats are “using the government and legal system in biased ways to” politically harm former President Donald Trump, based on a Harvard-Harris ballot.

The ballot, published Monday, requested 1,961 registered voter respondents:

Do you assume the authorized prosecutions of Donald Trump are honest and unrelated to politics, or do you assume the Democrats right this moment are engaged in lawfare — a marketing campaign utilizing the federal government and the authorized system in biased methods to take out political opponents?

A majority of 57 p.c stated they consider Democrats are engaged in “lawfare” in opposition to Trump, whereas 43 p.c consider the prosecutions are each honest and apolitical.

Of Republicans, 83 p.c assume the authorized system and authorities are getting used to wreck Trump politically, whereas 31 p.c of Democrats and 57 p.c of independents really feel the identical. Conversely, 69 p.c of Democrats, 17 p.c of Republicans, and 43 p.c of independents consider the trials are honest and unrelated to politics.

The ballot requested a really comparable query, which yielded almost similar outcomes: “Do you think the prosecutions of Donald Trump are fair and unbiased, or are they politically motivated?”

A majority of 56 p.c stated the prosecutions are “politically motivated,” whereas 44 p.c stated they’re “fair and unbiased.”

What is extra, most voters (58 p.c) consider that “Trump’s trials in the heavily Democratic jurisdictions,” together with Manhattan and Fulton County, Georgia, needs to be moved to completely different jurisdictions “to avoid real or perceived bias.” This contains 40 p.c of Democrats, 77 p.c of Republicans, and 58 p.c of independents.

A minority of 42 p.c, together with 60 p.c of Democrats, say it’s “possible to have an unbiased legal process in those heavy Democratic jurisdictions.”

The ballot additionally confirmed Trump and President Joe Biden at 50 p.c apiece in head-to-head match-ups the place Trump is hypothetically convicted of a criminal offense in both the labeled paperwork case or the Georgia case. He leads Biden 52 p.c to 48 p.c in the hypothetical state of affairs in which he’s discovered responsible of a criminal offense in the federal January 6 case.

The ballot was carried out April 24-25, 2024, and the margin of error is ± two share factors.



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