by Jason Cohen
Republican voters in Georgia told MSNBC in an episode that aired Wednesday that former President Donald Trump’s legal battles have made them more passionate about voting for him.
The latest survey shows asset beating Biden by 9 percent in Georgia, even in the face of election interference thing in the country, among other things, legal issues, e.g. current ones test in New York. Voters told MSNBC that these cases have increased their support for Trump because it feels like persecution to them and the former president comes across as a combatant.
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“NO. It actually made me support him more,” voter Antonio Jones told NBC News correspondent Blayne Alexander in response to a question about whether his support had changed or decreased following the Trump trial. “I just haven’t I believe it’s a coincidence that we have a trial in Atlanta and a different one in New York, so the question people are starting to ask themselves, like I did, is why now?”
Trump narrowly won Georgia in 2016, but lost it to President Joe Biden in 2020.
“I think I’m always fighting,” Thaden Rumbaugh, who will vote for the first time in 2024, told Alexander why he supports Trump. “I mean he’s getting so much just defensive about the news and everything, but he still hasn’t given up. He still fights for what is right.”
A few surveys published from the beginning jury selection in Trump’s trial in New York showed that a conviction would not discourage voters from voting for the former president. Many Americans also say they do not believe Trump did anything illegal or that he is being treated fairly during the war thingpolls.
“I’ve talked to a lot of people who previously identified as Democrats,” voter Lisa Babbage told Alexander. “They have changed their political beliefs to independents and are looking forward to voting for Trump. Because now they find something in common with a political candidate at this level.”
“They felt persecuted by the system of American injustice. “It’s not difficult for them to think that Trump could also be a victim,” Babbage said. “People see that there is some kind of similarity between him and maybe all black men who have been incarcerated and the families that have been impacted by the incarceration of a black man.”
Trump support from black men rose in seven battleground states to 30 percent, more than double his support nationwide in the same group in the 2020 contest, According to – according to an April survey published by The Wall Street Journal.
“Pretty much everyone says they’re picking on him,” Sammy Baker, Gwinnett County GOP chairman, told Alexander. “People are tired of chasing him and it shows in many areas. This really isn’t a huge problem at a party. In fact, they’re really driving everyone crazy and they’re looking at the huge tyrant, and the tyrant is the government.
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Jason Cohen is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation.
