https://www.reuters.com/world/us/one-10-republicans-less-likely-vote-trump-after-guilty-verdict-reutersipsos-poll-2024-05-31/
less likely is doing a lot of heavy lifting there.
If you were 99% certain to vote for Trump, but now Trump the convict only has you 95% certain, you are less likely...
I think it's kind of difficult at this point for him not to comment at all. But yes, it's a very fine line he has to walk here. He'll say something generic about "nobody is above the law" and probably skirt even saying former president and current felon Donald Trump's name.
On the subject of whether he'll be able to vote in Florida, given that he is a convicted felon.
In Florida, a felon convicted in Florida loses their right to vote until they've completed all their sentence and paid all related fines and costs. However, Florida law says that if you are convicted...
"First time" offender. Unlikely.
But he is now former president and current felon.
Florida is pretty tough on ex-cons voting. And Trump is a current con. Will be be able to vote come November?
Yeah. Doesn't look good for him. Nobody is expecting him to be aquitted, he was mostly hoping for a hung jury and a mistrial. If the jury was hung, the judge would have definitely sent them back to work on it some more.
Trump is currently sitting in court while his lawyer argues that the gag order prevents him from being able to respond to tweets like this:
Perhaps his lawyer should advise him that the best way to respond to name calling is to not respond to name calling?
Too early to say what his motivation was, reportedly he dropped a bunch of these before doing it:
Clearly crazy. But did they see Trump as the problem? Or the cure?
I just read something related to this that Mr Trump might not have considered before sending out his extortion attempt.
There are individual limits to how much you can give a candidate per election cycle. If somebody gave the max to Trump directly, then also gave to say, Matt Gaetz, and they...