New results from polling done for Fox News may not have shown the outcome the network’s conservative commentators were anticipating, or at least hoping for.
Over half of overall respondents said in the polling that they believe Trump did “something illegal” amid his attempts to upend the results from the 2020 presidential election and stay in power. (The specific portion was 53 percent.) Trump has now been indicted twice in relation to those schemes, once at the federal level by Special Counsel Jack Smith and the second time in Georgia by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis accused Trump and 18 others of involvement in a criminal conspiracy targeting the 2020 presidential election results from her southeastern state.
In the Fox polling, another 20 percent from the overall total said they thought Trump did something “wrong” but not criminal. Combined with those believing he committed criminal acts, a full 73 percent of Americans think Trump was at least in the wrong as he infamously sought to secure another term despite what in reality was the documented will of the voters. Only 24 percent of Americans said they didn’t think that Trump committed any “seriously wrong” act amid his power ploys in 2020-2021.
The pollsters also asked respondents whether they thought that President Joe Biden committed any illegal act in relation to the infamous foreign business dealings of his son, Hunter Biden. Only 38 percent said they thought that Biden had, in fact, committed an illegal act, though prominent Republicans in the House like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) and Lauren Boebert (Colo.) continue to push for Biden’s impeachment. Republicans pursuing that option have tied their outrage to claimed issues including alleged connections between the president and Hunter’s dealings. They’ve also made false claims about the southwestern border of the United States, which is not, in fact, “open,” no matter how many times that far-right Republicans claim as much. And no, foreign criminal organizations do not have operational control of that consistently critical area.
