Speaking to MSNBC on Friday, May 31, after former President Donald Trump was convicted on Thursday, May 30 on all 34 counts brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, half of the voters in the swing state of Nevada said that they are sticking with Trump and that the verdict against him has not deterred them nor has it weakened their support.
One of the voters, a male voter in the crucial swing state, told NBC’s David Noriega that he doesn’t think the trial was fair so he is going to register to vote and help “set the record straight” in November. He said, “As of last night, after what happened to Mr. Trump, you know, I don’t think that was fair. So I’m going ahead to register to vote. I think it’s time to vote and set the record straight.”
On the other side of things, however another male voter in Nevada told Noriega that the trial and verdict “cemented” his views about the former president and the verdict wasn’t surprising. That negative voter said, “It just kind of more cemented my opinion about the guy. Like, everything that came out in the verdict didn’t surprise me at all. It just sounded like things he would do.”
Similarly negatively, a man in a Libertarian shirt said he thinks Trump is so bad that he would consider voting Democrat rather than libertarian in the election just to try to get away from Trump. He said, “I’m tempted to go to lean to the Democratic Party just to get votes away from Donald Trump. I think Donald Trump is a terrible idea for this country,”
However, another interviewee was more positive. That was a female voter who has already voted for Trump twice and plans on doing so a third time. She, speaking to the NBC reporter about the trial and election, said that her support for Trump was “cemented” by the shocking conviction in the trial that many see as having been politically motivated. She told Noriega, “I have been a Trump supporter since 2016, voted for him twice, planning on voting again. Yesterday cemented that fact for me.”
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Half the voters being for Trump and half being against is more or less in line with polling data from the state that shows Trump up by about six points over Biden but still in the mid-50s. That is one of the largest leads he has in a swing state and is, as even CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten noted, an “absolute disaster” for Biden.
Enten, speaking about the matter, said, “These sun belt battleground states, frankly, for the Joe Biden campaign, these numbers are an absolute disaster. The smallest lead is in Arizona for Donald Trump, he’s up six. Look at this, nine in Georgia, 13 in Nevada. My goodness, gracious, my god. That is a hugely — no Democrat has lost that state since John Kerry lost it back in 2004.”