51% of Americans consider Trump to be a lawbreaker.
According to the results of a new poll, more than half of Americans believe that Donald Trump tried to retain his presidency after the 2020 election by resorting to illegal means.
More than half of Americans believe that Donald Trump has tried to illegally retain his presidency, according to a new poll conducted by CBS News/YouGov.
According to the “Hill” database, the results of the survey published on Monday showed that 51 percent of Americans believe that former US President Donald Trump tried to use “illegal and unconstitutional” means to become president after his defeat. continue in the 2020 presidential election. 21 percent said they believed Trump tried to stay in office using legal means, and 20 percent said the former US president did not try to stay in office.
The survey was conducted after a federal court in Washington on Thursday indicted Trump on four counts of trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election.
54% of the respondents of this survey said that they consider Donald Trump’s efforts to cancel the results of the American elections as a weakening of democracy. 17% said that they think these are Trump’s efforts to preserve democracy, and 28% said that they do not accept either of these two options.
Also, the majority of Americans, equivalent to about 59 percent, said that the judicial investigation against Trump and the indictments issued against him is an attempt to stop his campaign for the 2024 presidential election. 57% stated that the purpose of these investigations and indictments is to preserve the rule of law, and 52% stated that their purpose is to defend democracy.
The results of the aforementioned survey also showed that more than a third of the respondents believed that these investigations and indictments against Trump are personal. Fifty-six percent of Republican respondents to the poll believed that the judicial investigation was an “attack on people like them,” a phrase that Trump repeatedly used at a rally with his supporters. In this survey, 77% of Republicans who are members of the “MAGA” (Make America Great Again) movement said that the investigations and indictments against Trump are an attack against them, but in comparison, 42% of Republicans who are not members of this movement had such an opinion about themselves.
A far greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats, 86 percent, said they believe the investigation and indictments against Trump are an attempt to stop his 2024 presidential campaign, compared to just 31 percent of Democratic respondents. On the other hand, the Democrats, with a higher percentage than the Republicans, believe that these investigations and indictments are to uphold the rule of law and defend democracy. The “CBS News/Yoga” survey was conducted between August 2nd and 4th (August 11th to August 13th) by asking 2145 American adults with a margin of error of 2.9%.
On Tuesday of last week, a jury chaired by Jack Smith, the special investigator of the Trump cases, indicted him on four charges including conspiracy to defraud the American people, conspiracy to obstruct the official proceedings of a judicial case, and Accused of conspiracy against the rights of citizens.
Last Thursday, the former president of the United States appeared in the court of his accusation in Washington City and denied the four charges brought against him in the case of trying to annul the results of the election.
