First, the start of jury selection 15 Apr, Trump 45.2, Biden 44.9, Trump by 0.3. Three weeks later or into the hush money trial -Trump 46.6, Biden 45.1, Trump by 1.5 points.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/president/general/2024/trump-vs-biden

The five-way race, 15 Apr, Trump 41.9, Biden 40.0, Kennedy 10.0, West 1.7, Stein 1.5. Trump up by 1.9 points. Today, Trump 42.1, Biden 38.9, Kennedy 10.0, West 2.0, Stein 1.5. Trump by 3.2 points.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/po...ump-vs-biden-vs-kennedy-vs-west-vs-stein

I had firmly believed once folks saw Trump sitting at the defendants table during a criminal trial his number would go down. Apparently, that hasn’t been the case. Maybe I should have known better. If being found guilty in the two civil New York trials, the 91 federal indictments, the Georgia case haven’t affected the dynamics of this rematch, why did I believe this hush money trial would? It’s seems nothing short of a guilty verdict is going to have an effect. Now, today, I’m not too sure about that. I went searching. To this question - Do you think the legal prosecutions of Donald Trump are fair and unrelated to politics or do you think the Democrats today are engaged in lawfare - a campaign using the government and the legal system in biased ways to take out a political opponents? 43% answered fair and legal, 57% answered using the legal system to take out a political opponent.

https://harvardharrispoll.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/HHP_Apr2024_KeyResults.pdf

Is that the answer? But wait, in the same poll, 55% of all Americans think Trump committed crimes, 45% don’t. 52% think Trump is a threat to democracy, 48% don’t. Definitely contradictorily numbers. Perhaps there is no sane answer. Maybe no reason to be found in the numbers either. The only thing the polls have been constant in and has been for months is that around 60% of all Americans don’t want Biden reelected, 60% don’t want Trump to regain the white house. With that, therein may lie the answer why none of these trials has affected Trump one bit. Only 38% of all Americans have been paying attention to this upcoming presidential election, 42% are enthusiastic about voting for the president, but 41% have no enthusiasm at all about voting for president. They don’t care about the rematch. Trying to make sense out of something that makes no sense seems to be an impossibility.

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.