WASHINGTON DC (WSAU) – Despite being indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., as part of a criminal probe into his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election on Tuesday, Former President Donald Trump is continuing to surge in the polls.
According to a brand new New York Times/Siena poll, former President Trump is currently tied with President Biden at 43% and leads Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by 37 points nationally for the Republican nomination. The latest poll from Echelon also shows former President Trump currently leading President Biden by 42% to 39% nationally and former President Trump leading President Biden by 6 points in swing states.
In other polls, such as the most recent Premise Data poll, Trump is currently beating President Biden 43% to 39%, and Harvard/Harris also has former President Trump defeating President Biden 45% to 40%, along with an 18-point lead with independent voters.
These figures correspond with his campaign receiving record-breaking donations, as former President Donald Trump’s fundraising organization, which divides funds between his campaign and the Save America PAC, received $35 million in the second quarter of 2023, more than doubling the $18.8 million he received in the first quarter.
Many political strategists, such as Stu Rothenberg, expect the former President’s poll numbers to continue to rise due to his many supporters and a large portion of independent voters sympathizing with his claim that the recent indictments are politically motivated and being done to prevent him from being able to be on the ballot in 2024.
“This will rally his supporters to his talking points—about how the establishment and the ‘deep state’ are against him and them,” Stu Rothenberg, a non-partisan political analyst, told Reuters before the indictment was handed down.
On Tuesday night, the Trump campaign condemned the indictment, calling it “the latest corrupt chapter in the continued pathetic attempt by the Biden Crime Family and their weaponized Department of Justice to interfere with the 2024 Presidential Election, in which President Trump is the undisputed frontrunner and leading by significant margins.”
Former President Trump will appear in court in Washington, DC, on Thursday at 4 p.m. EST. He faces charges such as conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
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