A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll is the latest to suggest that any verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money trial is unlikely to have a major effect on voters’ choices come November.
Overall, 67% of registered voters say a guilty verdict in the trial would not make a difference to their vote, while 76% say the same about a not guilty verdict.
Those figures are similar to other recent polling on the topic, including a May Quinnipiac poll which found that 65% of registered voters said that if Trump were convicted it would be unlikely to change their position on the presidential race.
Most notably in the new polls, just a small share of people who support Trump say that a guilty verdict would dissuade them from supporting him.
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