Former President Donald Trump was found guilty Thursday of 34 felony counts in a New York trial centering around his hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. He’s the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a felony – but will it impact the November election?
Probably not much, political analyst Tony Smith told KNX News.
“Trump could literally shoot somebody in the head in the middle of Fifth Avenue and his hardcore supporters, in a Jim Jones-like fashion, will say he deserved it,” Smith said.
But he noted that Trump’s loyal supporters aren’t a majority of the country – and his conviction could lose him a handful of undecided voters in key swing districts.
“If you've got 80,000 people in those swing states that say, you know what, I'm not happy with this – or even 30,000 – that may be enough to knock him out of contention,” Smith said.
Still, he believes this trial’s influence on the election will likely be minimal, since “Trump’s character has been baked into this election for a very long time.”
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