A new Yahoo News/YouGov survey finds only 23 percent of all respondents saying disgraced former President Trump should be permitted to serve again if convicted of a “serious crime” versus 62 percent who say no, he should not be. As to what “serious crime” means, 52 percent agreed “falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments to a porn star” constituted a serious offense, while 66 percent said “conspiring to overturn the results of a presidential election” and 63 percent agreed “taking highly classified documents from the White House and obstructing efforts to retrieve them” rose to that level. “In each instance, these numbers are a few percentage points higher among registered voters,” Yahoo News notes in their write-up of the poll.
Trump still leads the pack of Republican 2024 primary candidates at 52 percent versus “someone else” at 36 percent, underscoring the conundrum facing the party going into the election year.