Poll: 49% of Independents think Trump should drop out post-guilty verdict
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/01/poll-trump-conviction-election-independent-voters
Poll: 49% of Independents think Trump should drop out post-guilty verdict
https://www.axios.com/2024/06/01/poll-trump-conviction-election-independent-voters
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100% of the American people should want a convicted felon, rapist, slander, runner of a corrupt business, runner of a fake charity, runner of a fake University who faces dozens of even stronger indictments for far more serious crimes to drop out.
If you still support Trump, you are declaring yourself and enemy of America and the American people
Surprising that number isn’t higher among independents, makes me think they are becoming for tolerant of Trumps sociopathy
Everyone needs to give the impact of the verdict time to sink in with the Trump supporters and independents.
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.”
– Thomas Paine
and 51% of independents are too chicken shit to admit that they’re actually republicans.
Sheesh 49% of independents and 15% of republicans think he should drop out entirely.
Those numbers don’t seem great for him.
I swear I will never understand some poll responses.
Apparently 54% overall approve/agree with the fact he was found guilty.
49% of independents and 15% of Republicans think he should drop out because of it.
Yet somehow the same poll has Biden and Trump nearly tied at 45%-44%.
These numbers just don’t compute to me.
Man lawfully adjudicated to have committed 34 crimes against the United States.
Americans: “This guy should be in charge of the federal government.”
If the GOP dropped Trump in favor of Nikki Haley they’d have a good shot at winning the White House. There are too many independents who won’t vote for Trump for him to win.
Nathaniel made a valid point about the pod, in my opinion. With a long way to go before the election, moderate GOP voters are likely to tell pollsters similar things now due to social pressure, but they will eventually return home to Trump when they are alone in the voting booth.
And for the Independents still on the fence: his other crimes are more damning. The only reason he hasn’t been charged for the classified documents case is because a corrupt judge has indefinitely postponed it.
Well that’s not nothing.Still, I will never understand the attraction to this idiot.
Everything about him is grotesque and evil
That’s a significant chunk. Good!
He will never consider dropping out. His options are win the election and be above the law, or spend the last few years of his life serving punishment for his lifetime of crime. If he had integrity, he wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place.
51% of Independents support a treasonous, sex offender as long as they can cheat on their taxes.
lol should be 100. Thanks poll
That is a huge number.
I’d kind of rather see him lose badly
I think most people are delusional about Trump. Dropping out makes no sense for him. He has never measured himself against the moral bar that most subscribe to. He has never apologized for anything, or taken responsibility for anything. Saying he should drop out is like saying Mitch McConnel should raise taxes on the rich, or that Elon Musk should practice some humility. It’s pointless idle talk that betrays peoples ignorance of what motivates Trump and what his supporters find so appealing in him.
I’m one of them. And I bet it’s actually higher than 49%.
I’ve been 100% independent for 30 and I want him to 100% disappear and never speak again.
The most important thing to note with the conviction(s) is the glass ceiling protecting Trump’s special accommodation as an ex-president has been shattered.
Not only has he been flaunting his illegal behavior in the nations face more and more brazenly, but he pushed the public patience to the point to where he was knowingly abusing society’s special accommodation for his status. The People as a whole have given him a very generous accommodation for which he still finds ways to consume fully only to want more.
The ceiling of perceived immunity is gone.
I’m agnostic, but he’s the literal anti-Christ. Nothing has swayed me towards believing in a higher power more than the thought that Trump is some kind of test.
The fact republicans aren’t pushing him off the ticket means either they’ve fully drunk the Kool Aid or they have some real shenanigans planned for the election and they think they can cheat their way to victory. I don’t know which is worse.
I just wish that the 49% of Independent voters that think Trump should drop out of the race would also vote for Joe Biden but I doubt that’s the case. This guilty vertic should be the slam dunk Biden needs to win but some of y’all still can’t understand how the electoral college works and the idea of the lesser of two evils.
A convicted felon shouldn’t be allowed to run for president of the United States.
The fact less than 90% of any group feels this way shows us how fucked we are.
For the sake America’s international reputation he should have dropped out several times before 2016.
He would never drop out. His motivation for running is 100% selfish. He wants to become president so he can pardon himself for fomenting an insurrection and hiding stolen top secret documents, enact revenge, and grift what is left to grift.
Considering what is best for the country is not among his concerns whatsoever.
He wanted Clinton to drop out due to an investigation. Trump is beyond that. He is a convicted felon.
….less than half. less than half think a convicted felon should drop out of his presidential campaign that he legally now could not vote in.
Thats a much lower number than is reasonable…
Well, since he’s not likely to drop out, then get out and vote blue. That’s how he goes away
He’s going to win if you don’t vote
These ‘independents’ are just lifelong republicans who want to vote for Haley and will vote 3rd party/abstain if not.
Those independents are stupid. He will never drop out. It’s his only avenue to get out of jail….vote blue and actually do something to make sure he can’t win.
“How Trump dropping out will hurt Biden”
– alleged liberal press
We’re going to be the laughing stock of the modern world if we elect a convicted felon as President. A literal Crook in Chief. Not that the entire U.N. hasn’t already laughed in his face.
He won’t and it doesn’t matter. **Go vote.** Even if he absolutely gets completely steamrolled by Biden 525-13 in the electoral college, he’ll still claim the election was RiGgEd and a DiSgRaCe. It’s been 8 years and he still repeats the same things like clockwork. You know it’s coming no matter what, so just plan on it. Biden is far from perfect, but he’s certainly better than this absolutely despicable excuse of a “man”.
At some point, the republican establishment is going to have to realize this perpetual loser is a millstone.
He lost the last election badly.
He lost his coup attempt
He lost the defamation case against Carroll
He lost the second defamation case against Caroll
He lost the fraud case in NY
He lost the criminal case in NY which was the weakest of the 4 criminal cases he faces
He is a weak loser.
A more realistic headline would read “ Poll: 51% of Independents think Trump is still qualified to run post guilty verdict.” These verdicts only piss his base off and support him more. It’s infuriating.
That number is embarrassingly low.