A Quinnipiac University poll, conducted partially after the Georgia indictment dropped, (Aug. 10 – 14), found that a 54% majority of Americans think Trump should be criminally prosecuted, 12 points more than the 42% who say he shouldn’t.
Crucially, independent voters favor Trump being prosecuted by 20 points, 57% – 37%.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans (64%) call the federal charges serious, with a 52% majority saying they are “very serious” while just 21% say they are “not serious at all.”
Again, crucially, 51% of independents think the federal criminal charges are very serious.
Nearly 7 in 10 Americans (68%) think a felony conviction should render someone ineligible to be president. Independents hold that view by a roughly 40-point margin, 67% – 25%.
And look at 2020: 94% of Democrats voted for Joe Biden, 94% of Republicans voted for Trump, and independents—who accounted for roughly one-quarter of the electorate—favored Biden by 13 points, 54% – 41%.
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