On Wednesday, CNN senior statistics correspondent Harry Enten said that former President Donald Trump’s trial isn’t influencing Americans’ attitudes. And that is exactly why the Democrats have hit Trump with lawfare.
Every American with a triple-digit IQ knows that the Democrats went after Trump to interfere in the November election to help Joe Biden. And every case is failing spectacularly.
Closing arguments in Trump’s trial, which is based on an indictment for 34 felony charges of fabricating company records obtained by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, were held on Tuesday, and New York Judge Juan Merchan issued jury instructions on Wednesday. Enten claimed that, despite the six-week trial, some poll numbers shifted in Trump’s favor.
“Let’s take a look here: ‘Think Trump did something illegal in the New York hush money case,’ I’ve been interested in whether or not these numbers would change at all during the course of this trial,” Enten told John Berman, the CNN News Central host. “Simply put, John, they have not. Pre-opening statements, think Trump did something illegal, 46 percent, after the direct examination of Michael Cohen by the prosecution, look at where we are now, 46 percent. The percentage of Americans who think that the charges are very serious in fact, dropped from 40 percent to a little bit more than 35 percent during the course of this trial. So, yes, perhaps things might have changed with those 12 jurors, but what comes to the larger American public, there has been no change, at least so far, John.”
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“I think the question is, what’s exactly cooking here?” Enten said. “Why hasn’t there been much of a change? While folks like you and me, real news junkies, might be paying really close attention to what’s going on, the fact is that most Americans don’t really care that much,” he added.
“So closely following news about economy/inflation, that’s number one. It’s 65 percent,” Enten continued. “Look at immigration, 52 percent, election legitimacy, 49 percent, abortion, 47 percent, all the way down on this list of issues tested by the Ipsos Knowledge panel is Trump’s court cases at 42 percent, significantly less than economy and inflation. The fact is John, when we’re looking at these numbers, what we see is Americans minds aren’t changing, and a big reason why Americans’ minds aren’t changing is at this particular point, John, they are tuned out of the conversation.”
Enten then noted the general election results. Trump leads Biden by 1.1 percent in the RealClearPolitics average of general election surveys for a head-to-head fight, increasing to 1.8 percent when Green Party candidate Jill Stein and independent candidates Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are added.
“I’ll just point out the Biden versus Trump margin, perhaps not a big surprise,” Enten stated. “Donald Trump had a slight lead before the trial began, now he continues to have a slight lead.”
“Look, it’s still very much a winnable race for Joe Biden,” Enten stated. “But at this particular point, that Trump train that’s been moving faster than it’s ever moved before in a general election doesn’t show any signs of slowing down, despite the criminal indictments against him, despite the fact that this case in New York is now going to the jury.”
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