{"id":3102,"date":"2023-04-06T23:43:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/americans-divided-over-criminal\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:46:50","slug":"americans-divided-over-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/americans-divided-over-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans divided over criminal charges against Trump &#8211; Reuters\/Ipsos poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Cowan<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     The prosecution of former President Donald Trump has evenly divided Americans but appears to have boosted his chances of winning the Republican nomination for the 2024 election, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday, following Tuesday&#8217;s indictment of Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records by prosecutors in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The survey found that 49% of all Americans think it was right for prosecutors to pursue the first criminal case against a U.S. president or former president.<\/p>\n<p>But the finding underscores the political divide on so many matters revolving around Trump. Some 84% of self-described Democrats said the charges were merited, while only 16% of Republicans agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Some 40% of Republicans said the case made them more likely to vote for Trump in 2024, while 12% said it made them less likely to support him. Another 38% said it had no impact.<\/p>\n<p>Trump leads the field for the Republican nomination by a wide margin, with 58% of Republicans saying he is their preferred nominee. That is up from 48% in a Reuters\/Ipsos poll released on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has not entered the race, came in second at 21%. <\/p>\n<p>While Democrats and Republicans are deeply split over the prosecution of the case, the survey showed a strong belief that Trump arranged payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and model Karen McDougal to keep them quiet about alleged extramarital relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Some 73% of Americans believed that to be the case, including 55% of Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>However, 76% of Republicans think some in law enforcement are working to delegitimize Trump through politically motivated investigations, compared to 34% of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Some 51% of all respondents, but only 18% of Republicans, said the charges should disqualify Trump from again running for president. <\/p>\n<p>The survey of 1,004 U.S. adults has a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of plus or minus 3.8 percentage points for all respondents and plus or minus 6.3 percentage points for the 368 Republicans who participated in the poll.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Andy Sullivan and Stephen Coates)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/americans-divided-over-criminal\/former-u-s-president-donald-trump-appears-in-court-in-new\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ350ZT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ350ZT-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The prosecution of former President Donald Trump has evenly divided Americans but appears to have boosted his chances of winning the Republican nomination for the 2024 election, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll released on Thursday. The poll was conducted on Wednesday and Thursday, following Tuesday&#8217;s indictment of Trump on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3103,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-domestic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ350ZT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3102\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}