Sources on President Biden’s reelection campaign’s internal polling team tells Politico that their internal polls are showing Joe gaining ground on fat former President Trump following his conviction on 34 felony counts in Manhattan for interfering in the 2016 election by engaging in a hush money scheme to cover up a two-minute unprotected sexual encounter with pornstar Stormy Daniels.
“We’ve seen in polling since the conviction that the more the conviction is front and center in voters’ attention, the worse it is for Trump,” the anonymous pollster said. “Trump has dug his own hole deeper on the convictions. and we’re seeing him pay the price for that in the polling.”
Another said now that the message has been settled on, “almost universally, voters know this happened,” it’s important for the campaign to “keep it in the bloodstream and not let it fade from voters’ minds.” Biden Campaign Communications Director Mike Tyler said “It all comes back to the harm that he’s going to inflict on people because he’s looking out, fighting for one person, and that’s Trump. That’s true of the criminal convictions and that’s true of everything that he wants to do [in a second term]… That is the connective tissue that we’re building as we approach the debate.”