Trump gets massive poll boost after hush money trial conviction
Donald Trump gained a five-point lead in general election polls before his felony conviction in the hush-money trial, compared to afterward.
When Trump, Joe Biden and other third-party candidates were taken into account, the former president came back with a whopping 10 percent lead over the current president.
The jump is likely driven by the results of the Manhattan trial, in which Trump became a convicted felon with 34 guilty charges of falsifying records related to his hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
In the June 20 Rasmussen Reports poll, 46 percent say they would vote for Trump, compared to 36 percent who say they will vote for Biden.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received 9 percent, 2 percent for Cornel West, 1 percent for Jill Stein and the remaining 7 percent chose other candidates or were undecided.
Donald Trump is now 10 percent ahead of Joe Biden in a Rasmussen poll — a 5 percent jump from the same poll before his felony conviction
The same poll Rasmussen conducted on May 28 and 30 – before the jury’s verdict in Trump’s trial – showed the former president with a 5 percent lead.
Forty-four percent of voters surveyed last month said they would have chosen Trump, compared to the 39 percent who said they would vote for Biden if the election were held today.
In that poll, RFK Jr. earned 8 percent, while West and Stein each earned 1 percent.
While the latest results are not the largest margin of victory that Rasmussen shows for Biden, it was a huge jump from month to month.
This is largely attributed to the first Trump trial.
Multiple polls showed Trump getting a boost in polling and fundraising after the verdict was handed down in late May.
A poll after the verdict showed that 27 percent of voters would be more likely to cast their vote for Trump after the convocation.