Recent polling done by Civiqs in association with Daily Kos found half of registered voters saying that Donald Trump — now the presumptive Republican nominee for president this year — is guilty of criminal acts warranting prison time.
“Do you think that Donald Trump is guilty of any crimes that he should go to jail for?” registered voters were asked. Half answered in the affirmative, with 43 percent saying “no” alongside an additional eight percent who said they were unsure.
Trump recently reached the convention delegate total necessary to actually secure Republicans’ already expected presidential nod this year, more firmly establishing the long looming rematch between the former president and incumbent President Joe Biden. Both did face challengers in their respective parties’ primaries, but those challenges have faded. Trump’s last remaining serious challenger, Nikki Haley, dropped out after a series of losses on what’s known as “Super Tuesday,” a juncture on the primary calendar with a particularly sizable number of state-level nominating contests happening at once.
Some of Trump’s campaign messaging kicking off what was more formally the general election season after Haley’s exit from the race broadly disparaged the United States — again, mirroring his consistent threats of devastating impacts to the country if he loses this year.
“We are now, under Crooked Joe Biden, a Third World Nation, which uses the Injustice System to go after his political opponent, ME! But fear not, we will not fail, we will take back our once great Country, put AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN – GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, his knock-off social media site.
Biden and his allies, as he now also holds the convention delegate total that’s necessary for Democrats’ nomination, are pointing to policy accomplishments seen with the current president in power. They’re also calling out Republicans and Trump for their own stepping back from possibilities for bipartisan progress — necessary now with the current divisions in the federal government’s partisan control. Senate Republicans infamously voted down a border security proposal widely characterized as among the strictest such legislation put forward in years.
