This is not the end as far as the election is concerned. The sentencing won’t occur until 11 July. After which if I understand this right, Trump’s lawyers have 30 days in which to file their intent to appeal and then six months to file the actual appeal. All of this will take Trump past the election.

Which leads me to the question, what effect will this guilty verdict have on the election. Which is unclear, at least to me. The guilty verdict doesn’t stop Trump from running for president. How will it affect those who currently support him? That remains to be seen. One need to follow the polls closely from two weeks to a month from now to determine what effects if any effect happens. Today, the two candidate race - https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden

The five way race - https://www.realclearpolling.com/po...ump-vs-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein

Trump leads in both. He also leads today in all battleground, swing states. https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/president/2024/battleground-states

These I will be paying real close attention to. This unwanted rematch has as many voters out there who don’t want Biden reelected as don’t want Trump to regain the white house. This has been totally lost on most except those who pay very close attention to all the numbers, stats if you will. Considering that the two guilty verdicts in the civil trials, New York Fraud case and the E.J. Carroll trial had no effect. The Georgia election interference indictments, the 91 federal indictments in both the classified documents and 1-6 cases didn’t change or put a dent in the numbers or challenge Trump’s slim lead in the polls. It’s uncertain this guilty verdict in the hush money case will. One can only hope, then wait and see.

One needs to keep in mind this rematch is one most Americans don’t want. You have 59% of all Americans today who didn’t and don’t want Biden to run for reelection, 56% who didn’t and don’t want Trump to run again either. You have half of all Americans who would replace both Biden and Trump on the ballot if they could. That’s half, actually 49% of all Americans who don’t want neither one, neither Trump nor Biden. Something else no one is taking seriously or probably even knows or don’t care. Everyone is too caught in being very pro or anti-Trump than to gauge the mood, the feelings all Americans have about this rematch and both candidates running for president.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politic...roadly-critical-of-both-biden-and-trump/

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.