A new Quinnipiac University survey finds that 57 percent of respondents agree that disgraced former President Trump should be disqualified from running again in 2024 if charged with a crime, while 38 percent disagreed. Among Dem respondents the number unsurprisingly went up to 88 percent disqualify to 9 don’t, with Republicans it was 23 percent disqualify, 75 percent don’t, and with Independents it was close to the overall finding at 55 percent disqualify to 36 percent don’t.
Obviously Trump will not be legally disqualified if (really when) he’s charged with a crime, but that this many voters overall would say that the mere accusation of a crime (and not an actual conviction at trial) should be disqualifying, coupled with that he’s almost certain to win the 2024 GOP nomination (the survey finds him leading Ron DeSantis 47 to 33 percent with a full field including Mike Pence and Nimrata “Nikki” Haley) ought to be pretty fucking terrifying for Republicans.
But by far the funniest finding in this survey is that 62 percent agreed that the Donald’s likely coming indictment in NYC “is mainly motivated by politics.” The fanboys are probably going to run wild with that one while pretending that the very same survey and the very same sample did not also say by a slightly lesser margin that those charges should still disqualify Trump in 2024 anyway.