Following former President Donald Trump's 34-count felony conviction for falsifying business records in New York, voters have had a wide variety of reactions, ranging from jubilation to fury and even threats against the people involved in the case.
But in swing states, noted USA Today, some voters are still just trying to process it all — and one profiled in Wisconsin is just confused by the whole thing.
27-year-old Damon Anderson "didn’t expect Trump to be convicted. 'I’m kind of speechless,' said the Milwaukee resident, who didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 but said 'I was rooting for the guy, a little bit,'" said the report.
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"Anderson doesn’t plan to vote in this election. He can’t imagine Trump continuing to be the GOP nominee," the report continued. "'They can’t (nominate him) anymore, right? Now he has a conviction. He can’t become the president,' Anderson said, adding he thought Trump shouldn’t have run in 2024 with a case pending against him. 'If they allow Trump to still run, now what game are we playing? What’s really going on? It’s even more confusing than it was before, and I think that’s terrifying.'"
Trump is, in fact, allowed to run for office even if convicted of a felony, and there is no indication that Republican lawmakers are even wavering in their support for him, let alone considering trying to remove him from the race.
Anderson is one of a variety of voters profiled in swing states all around the country, with many simply retreating to their own ideological corners and expressing support or disapproval for the ruling based on their priors. Polls have suggested that some voters could move away from Trump over a conviction, but not a lot.
The former president will be sentenced on July 11, just days before the Republican National Convention is set to formally nominate him on the Republican Party ticket. He is essentially guaranteed to appeal that sentence.