Despite his slew of recent indictments, former President Donald Trump has a decent stronghold among Republican voters, according to a poll released on Tuesday.
The New York Times/Siena College poll found in July, only 13% of registered Republican voters said Trump committed “serious federal crimes,” a 3-point increase from the same time last year. Even with the indictments, 74% of Republicans said he has not committed any “serious” crimes, though it is a 6-point drop in the past year.
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As expected, Republicans’ opinion of Trump is practically the opposite of that of Democrats. In the poll, 86% of Democrats said the former president committed crimes, while 6% believed he did not.
Overall, the combined number of registered voters who think Trump is guilty of federal charges comes to a slight majority of 51%. On the other hand, 35% said he is innocent.
The remaining percentages in each category refer to respondents who didn’t know whether Trump was guilty or didn’t have a response to the question.
According to Monday's New York Times/Siena College poll, Trump came in at 54% support of GOP primary voters. However, Trump and President Joe Biden would be tied at 43% among all registered voters if a 2024 rematch were held today.
Last week, the Justice Department charged Trump in a superseding indictment related to his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House over two years ago. This is the latest development in the former president’s legal troubles during his 2024 campaign.
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Trump received his first federal indictment in June for the classified documents case and is also facing a New York indictment related to allegedly making hush money payments during his 2016 campaign.
The New York Times and Siena College surveyed 1,329 registered voters nationwide, including an oversample of 818 registered Republican voters, from July 23-27. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.67 percentage points for all registered voters.