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Supporters of Donald Trump who are most likely to reconsider their support if he is convicted in his Manhattan hush money trial have very Joe Biden-friendly profiles, according to a CNN poll on Americans’ views of the criminal proceedings.
While three-quarters of current Trump supporters said a criminal conviction would be immaterial to them, 24% said they "might reconsider" their support. In other words, of all the voters supporting Trump in the survey, 76% were MAGA diehards, while roughly a quarter were more malleable.
So let's take a look at a profile of these squishier Trump supporters, according to the survey:
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They are younger: 64% who said they might reconsider were under 50.
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They are less likely to be white: 49% who said a conviction could matter were people of color, while just 17% of whites said the same.
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63% said Biden legitimately won 2020.
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20% said they backed Biden in 2020.
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49% are independents.
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50% are ideological moderates.
