Former President Donald Trump appears to be receiving a massive financial boost from his guilty verdict, but apparently a vast number of Americans believe he should end his campaign.
On Sunday, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found 50% of Americans said they believe the decision to find Trump guilty in his hush money trial was correct.
And roughly 49% say he should end his campaign. In 2023, 49% said in an ABC News poll he should suspend his campaign due to an indictment.
Despite those findings, the former president’s favorability rating has held steady at 31%.
The poll also found 47% of Americans believe the charges were politically motivated, while 38% said the opposite.
On Thursday, Trump was found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in an attempt to cover up a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election.
Conservatives have criticized the case and alleged it was an example of selective prosecution against Trump.
Additionally, they have took issue with the legal theory of the case which bumped the charges up from misdemeanors to felonies on the basis that business records were falsified in furtherance of another crime. And while the prosecution did not precisely make clear what the other crime was, it argued the falsification was done in furtherance of a campaign finance violation in closing arguments.
Trump called the verdict the result of a “rigged disgraceful trial.”
Despite the ABC poll finding nearly half the country thinks he should end presidential bid, the Trump campaign claims it raised a whopping $200 million in the days since the verdict was announced.
Additionally, the former president started an account on TikTok and quickly developed a following of more than 3 million, dwarfing President Joe Biden’s following of around 345,600 followers on the platform.
The ABC News/Ipsos poll was conducted May 31-June 1 and sampled 781 adults, with a margin of error of 3.7%.
