A new poll has shown a significant shift among independent voters in their perception of Trump's documents case.

A new Politico-Ipsos poll Tuesday showed Americans’ perception of former President Donald Trump’s criminal cases, with a notable shift among independents.

The poll, based on responses from 1,024 adults in the general U.S. population, found that about half of Americans believe that Trump is guilty in each of the four criminal cases he is facing: the Manhattan “hush money” case, the Mar-a-Lago documents case, the Georgia election interference case and the federal election interference case. Ipsos noted in its reports that the numbers are fairly steady compared to a similar poll from August 2023, conducted shortly after the most recent of the four indictments was brought.

Also steady were the results along party lines for Democrats and Republicans. Among respondents, those who identified as Democrats heavily favored the belief that Trump is guilty, ranging between 86 percent and 87 percent for each case. Republicans, conversely, favored the belief that Trump is not guilty, though to a less pronounced degree, between 60 percent and 67 percent for each case.

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    194·
    8 months ago

    Why do they make it sound like Jack Smith himself is attempting to do that?

    • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
      273·
      8 months ago

      Because Newsweek is trash. I don’t know how or why but links to this publication are rampant on Lemmy.

      General rule 1: Read with a fine tooth comb and you’ll find decent reporting about two thirds of the way through a Newsweek article.

      General rule 2: Any news outlet with a comment section is more concerned about getting people to spend time on their site to sell ads than they are neutrally informing the public.

      • Localhorst86@feddit.de
        8·
        8 months ago

        I wonder at what point newsweek became this trash. I do remember about 20 years ago, we used printed Newsweek magazines in our english curiculum in school as a tool to learn a foreign language, but at no point were it’s articles anywhere near as bad is they are on their website.

        • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          8 months ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek
          Merger with The Daily Beast (2010–2013)
          Spin-off to IBT Media, return to print (2013–2018)
          Newsweek Publishing LLC (2018–present)

          In 2020, Newsweek’s website hit 100 million unique monthly readers, up from seven million at the start of 2017. In 2021, its revenues doubled to $75 million and traffic increased to 48 million monthly unique visitors in May 2022 from about 30 million in May 2019 according to Comscore.

          What the Hell Is Going on at Newsweek? (February 5, 2018)
          https://splinternews.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-at-newsweek-1822742941

          While the magazine still produces in-depth reporting and the occasional scoop, staffers said the parent company had gone on a hiring spree last fall, grouping mostly young writers into a breaking news team of more than 20 staffers. These reporters are tasked with churning out an unheard of level of content for massive web traffic.

          One staffer on that team told Splinter they’re getting paid less than $40,000 a year. Breaking news writers are expected to draw 1 million page views a month, they said, with traffic bonuses starting thereafter. “We get chastised if we don’t [meet 1 million page views],” they said, “and get assigned garbage, clickbait articles to compensate.”

          How Newsweek Has Gone Down the Far-Right Rabbit Hole (Nov. 05, 2022) - The Daily Beast
          https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-newsweek-has-gone-down-the-far-right-rabbit-hole

          The once-esteemed magazine has been reduced to a soapbox for the far right, a new study reveals, thanks to a MAGA activist running the opinions page.

        • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          I didn’t realize it was so bad until it became the de facto source for all Lemmy articles.

          I think Newsweek was the first magazine I ever subscribed to as an adult. I really miss news magazine delivery.