A large majority of Americans believes that former President Donald Trump committed criminal acts, per recent polling from the firm Navigator Research, which was completed September 11. Overall, 60 percent of respondents said so. Among independents, it was 59 percent — and even among Republicans, it was 27 percent.
It’s difficult, of course, to precisely calculate from those numbers the potentially future impacts on Trump’s chances in 2024. He is expected to win the Republican presidential nomination, though that outcome is not certain, considering in part simply the extended amount of time still remaining before the nominations for president are finalized. And in the general election, polling that measures voters’ opinions on a rematch between Trump and incumbent President Joe Biden is sometimes mixed — though, despite any isolated polling that shows Trump-positive results far outside the norm, there is not some kind of clear lead for Trump, despite his predictable claims.
In the Navigator polling, which included questions for survey participants that they’ve asked previously, 42 percent of overall respondents said they believe Trump will eventually be convicted of a criminal act. He is currently facing criminal charges across four cases in the same number of jurisdictions and, therefore, could face four jury trials (assuming the absence of something like a deal).
In the meantime, he’s just still pushing his extremist nonsense, like the recent rhetoric on Truth Social (his social media site) suggesting there was a historical precedent for the execution of Mark Milley, the military official who has served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and whose replacement was recently approved by the Senate amid the ongoing back-and-forth over objections to military nominations from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.). And this isn’t even the first time that Trump has casually brought up the imagined death of various political opponents. Yet, somehow this remains the guy for many Republicans — both among everyday voters and in elected office, if the latter are endorsing anybody at all.
