'Astonishingly high' number of GOP voters ditch a convicted Trump: ex-White House aide
Former White House Communications Director Alyssa Farrah Griffin said during an appearance on CNN's "The Source" with Kaitlan Collins on Monday that getting convicted of a felony would do serious damage to former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.
"What's interesting to me is... the number of Republicans that wouldn't support Trump if he was convicted is astonishingly high," she said. "It ends up being about a third of the Republican Party who said they couldn't vote for a convicted felon.
"I think there is a patriotic obligation to know who you are voting for."
Griffin was riffing off of new numbers drawn from a CNN poll conducted by SSRS that has 38 percent of Republicans saying that a verdict should be reached before the presidential election, leaving only 20 percent calling it essential, and 39 percent surveyed who claimed it doesn’t matter when the trial is held, while 23% that they think the trial should be held after the election ends in November.
Meantime, about half of Americans overall want to be able to pick a president after a verdict in the federal D.C. case against former President Trump, where he stands accused of committing election subversion following the 2020 presidential election that exploded into a riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Some 72 percent of polled Democrats say it would be essential.
Griffin found it "stunning" that there isn't a higher amount of Americans demanding a resolution to Trump's criminal cases before
"There are many, many Americans that don't believe felons should have voting rights," she said. "Yet, they would be comfortable with a felon being president of the United States."