Republicans Voters Against Trump director Sarah Longwell said that a focus group with prospective voters held one day after Donald Trump was minted a felon — is enough for most to not punch a vote for him come November 5.
"I was listening to a focus group that we’re convening right now, as we speak, of two-time Trump voters who rate Trump as doing a very bad job," she said during an interview with Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC. "They view him unfavorably. And those are the people who we are trying to persuade to not vote for Trump in the 2024 election."
The results favored a bitter taste when it comes to casting their vote for Trump.
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"We asked them the impact of this verdict on how they were thinking about voting for Trump and five of the nine said it made them less likely to be willing to vote for Trump," Longwell said. "One said it made them more likely. And three said it made no difference."
A New York City jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money paid off by the former president's fixer and attorney Michael Cohen to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Already, many conservative politicians and donors have come to Trump's aid, calling the case and the verdict political persecution for the presumptive Republican nominee.
Moments after he became a convicted felon, Trump claimed he was wrongly convicted, stating outside of the courtroom: "I'm a very innocent man."
The fact that most of those quizzed about whether the conviction affects their voting opinion seems right to Longwell. Because she contends they don't despise President Joe Biden, but "they really hate" Trump.
"They maybe aren’t enthusiastic about Joe Biden, but Donald Trump scares them," she said. "Whenever there’s something like this, a verdict where he has been found guilty on 34 counts, he is a felon, that does raise the bar for these voters to say: 'I don’t think I can get there on him.'"
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