Yahoo News/YouGov poll: 57% of Americans -- a new high -- say Trump's alleged crimes are 'serious' as hush money trial beg

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Yahoo News/YouGov poll: 57% of Americans — a new high — say Trump’s alleged crimes are ‘serious’ as hush money trial begins (full headline)

As the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president kicks off this week in Manhattan, more Americans than ever before (57%) say the underlying crimes that defendant Donald Trump has been charged with — “falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star” — are “serious,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

That number is up six percentage points from the last time Yahoo News and YouGov asked about the hush money case, in December 2023. The previous high was 54% in September 2023.

The survey of 1,746 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 11 to 15, found similar increases in the perceived seriousness of Trump’s other alleged felonies as well:

Nearly three-quarters of Americans (73%, a new high) now say that “conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election” is a serious crime, up from 66% in December.

A full 69% (another new high) now say “taking highly classified documents from the White House and obstructing efforts to retrieve them” is a serious crime, up from 63% in December. And the same share (69%) now say that “attempting to obstruct the certification of a presidential election” is a serious crime, up from 64% in December.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-newsyougov-poll-57-of-americans--a-new-high--say-trumps-alleged-crimes-are-serious-as-hush-money-trial-begins-191300785.html

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1. 6% jump and the trial

hasn't even started yet!

[calguy]

2. The more voters see him

The more they dislike him.
Republicans think this won't hurt.
They're about eight months away from finding out just how wrong they are.

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3. self kick