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GOP support for allowing felons to be president rises after Trump conviction
Speaker Johnson falsely labels the GOP the 'rule of law party'

underpants
(195,358 posts)Cult member #2 - Dear Leader said to line the walls with hay bales and douse them with gasoline.
Cult member #1 - Oh!
.Do you want me to help?
dalton99a
(92,602 posts)Marcuse
(8,822 posts)
PatSeg
(52,400 posts)Well, except for winning by any means necessary.
ColinC
(11,098 posts)being president.
ret5hd
(22,286 posts)the point wasnt the legality
it was the hypocrisy
FakeNoose
(40,476 posts)Maybe it's more like "complete short-term memory loss" ... because it makes things so much easier.
Harker
(17,503 posts)when Arnold Schwarzenegger was Gov. of California.
They're for whatever works in their interest at all times.
CaptainTruth
(8,067 posts)If that's true Trump is toast, but that number seems too high.
FakeNoose
(40,476 posts)Repukes absolutely LOVE to lie on polls ... it's what they live for. They'll even lie and say they are Democrats, just to mess up the poll results. Also, it's why none of them ever believe polls, and neither should we.
Polls are useless, especially when they involve the polling of Repukes.
TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)There's always been a segment of Trump voters who disapprove of him personally, some quite vehemently (Mitt Romney, Nikki Haley, et al), yet vote for him anyway, simply because he's the Republican nominee.
That's almost certainly the case here -- they think someone convicted of a felony shouldn't be president, but they'll make an exception for Trump because he's the R.
progressoid
(52,700 posts)https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4704048-one-in-five-republicans-thinks-trump-is-guilty-new-poll/
In the Florida Atlantic University PolCom Lab/Mainstreet Research poll taken immediately after the 12-person jury returned the unanimous guilty conviction last Thursday pollsters asked 2,068 adults in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin whether they think Trump is guilty, regardless of how the jury in New York decided.
Overall, 48 percent of respondents say Trump is guilty, 38 percent say he is not, and 14 percent say they dont know.
While Democrats are most inclined to think Trump is guilty (79 percent), the survey shows some splintering among Republicans, 18 percent of whom say they think Trump is guilty, compared to two-thirds (66 percent) who say he is not, and 16 percent who say they dont know.
CaptainTruth
(8,067 posts)progressoid
(52,700 posts)vapor2
(4,000 posts)but just put 2 anti law morons on the intel committee? HYPOCRISY HERE!
LetMyPeopleVote
(176,049 posts)BumRushDaShow
(166,621 posts)
Some of them even graduate to bread and get fancy!

peppertree
(23,166 posts)Initech
(107,800 posts)peppertree
(23,166 posts)Part of the Larry Craig caucus, no doubt.
republianmushroom
(22,127 posts)ffr
(23,335 posts)In the values and character section of the Go Army website, it states that a person convicted of a felony is generally not permitted to join the military. So how on earth should a felon be allowed to lead the entire military if he couldn't join because of his criminal record?
Make it make sense.
USA Today
mnmoderatedem
(3,905 posts)what, pray tell, happened in that time frame to change their outlook?
Marthe48
(22,800 posts)Moral turpitude.
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BobTheSubgenius
(12,174 posts)"Not enough to feel bound by it, but we believe it exists."