A new poll shows 63% of Americans consider accusations of Trump’s election fraud in Georgia ‘serious’ – as legal advisers urge the former president to LEAVE his scheduled press conference to refute his latest charges
- New ABC/Ipsos poll: 47 percent call it ‘serious’
- 16 percent call the charges ‘somewhat serious’
- Comes after Trump and 18 others were indicted on alleged criminal conspiracy charges
A majority of Americans say the charges brought this week by a grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, are serious, according to a new poll, as former President Donald Trump ramps up his legal and political battle ahead of his latest arrest.
The poll, taken by ABC News / Ipsosreflects national sentiment on Trump’s fourth indictment as his lawyers consider whether to take the case to federal court.
It found a near majority, 47 percent, called the matter “serious,” while another 16 percent called it “somewhat serious.”
That left 10 percent calling the matter “not too serious” and 15 percent calling it “not serious at all.”
A new poll shows that 47 percent of Americans call the new charges against former President Donald Trump “serious,” while another 16 percent call them “somewhat serious.”
The results come days after Fulton County DA Fani Willis announced a sweeping 98-page indictment accusing Trump and 18 others of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in her state.
The sweeping charges also include alleged attempts to induce officials to violate their oaths, forgery, false statements and extortion charges.
The poll results are virtually motionless from where they were shortly before the indictment, which had been anticipated for months.
At the beginning of August, the number of Americans who called it serious or somewhat serious was 65 percent, which is not statistically significant. That came before Willis spoke publicly about the allegations and wall-to-wall media coverage of the allegations.
Overall, 63 percent of Americans consider the allegations serious
Sentiment has been virtually unmoved since Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced the indictment late Tuesday
Trump called the allegations a witch hunt and attacked Willis. He schedules a press conference at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he says he will release his own 100-page report shredding the allegations.
Trump touted the event shortly after his fourth indictment. He announced online that he would reveal “a large, complicated, detailed but irrefutable REPORT on the presidential electoral fraud that took place in Georgia.”
ABC news reported Thursday that Trump’s legal advisers urged him to cancel the event, calling it “highly questionable.”
A press event, if Trump held one, would certainly attract the attention of prosecutors in Georgia and Washington. Special counsel Jack Smith and Willis each included numerous Trump allegations of voter fraud in their indictments.
Smith argued that Trump’s false claims of victory were the background to actions by others. Willis outlines a series of actions by Trump lawyers and his former White House chief of staff, and recounts his appeal to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes.