Poll: Voters Want Trump's Supreme Court Pick to Limit Corporate Money in Politics, Not Abortion

[DonViejo]

Abortion may be dominating the headlines, but voters thinking about Trump’s potential Supreme Court pick care more about Citizens United, a new Daily Beast/Ipsos poll finds.

SAM STEIN
07.03.18 5:02 AM ET

The future of abortion rights in America does not appear to be the most galvanizing issue for voters when it comes to who President Donald Trump will select as his next Supreme Court nominee. That honor, according to a new Daily Beast/Ipsos poll, goes to the immense concerns many voters have about the role money plays in U.S. politics.

By overwhelming majorities, voters in each political party said they opposed the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision to allow businesses and corporations to spend without limit on political campaigns. In all, 64 percent of respondents said they wanted Trump to pick a Supreme Court nominee who would “limit the amount of money corporations and unions can spend on political campaigns.” That included 70 percent of Democrats and a remarkable 67 percent of Republicans alongside 60 percent of independents. Just 24 percent of all respondents said they did not want a Supreme Court nominee to curb that right.

Questions surrounding the future of abortion rights under the future court drew similar overall numbers but with a far greater partisan divide.

According to the Daily Beast/Ipsos poll, 63 percent of voters said they did not want Trump to nominate someone who would make abortion illegal, while 29 percent said they did want that type of nominee. Those margins were fueled by Democrats and independents who overwhelmingly said they wanted the Supreme Court to uphold the landmark case Roe v. Wade. Eighty percent of Democrats opposed Trump nominating a judge who would make abortion illegal and 66 percent of independents said the same. For Republican respondents, 53 percent said they would like the next justice to vote to make abortion illegal, while 41 percent said they would not.

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[LonePirate]

1. Those voters are in for a very surprising disappointment.

[Trust Buster]

2. The opposite will happen. Expect all limitations on direct donations to politicians to be lifted

[Squinch]

3. Silly voters. They don't think they matter to this administration, do they?

[sinkingfeeling]

4. That will never happen.

[genxlib]

5. Certainly those things don't really matter

When there are emails. EMAILS!! Oh the humanity!!!