Column | Trump once faced 91 charges. Now he faces 12.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Far from being problematic for Trump, the New York charges have probably been beneficial to Trump, at least so far.
46% : Those charges faced their own challenges after the Supreme Court determined in July that Trump had broad immunity from prosecution for actions undertaken under the auspices of his presidential office.
44% : Trump is now formally the Republican nominee and, despite his opponents replacing their nominee, has an even-odds chance of winning election in November.
37% : There was an ongoing assumption -- or perhaps hope -- that the criminal charges or any convictions would hobble Trump, reducing the odds that he would win the White House again.
32% : That leaves the 34 charges brought against Trump in New York -- charges that went to trial in April and which resulted in criminal convictions across the board.
31% : Those sit alongside the four charges filed against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith in D.C.
30% : Those charges are also federal, meaning that, if reelected, Trump could have his Justice Department simply bring the prosecution to an end.
30% : (Trump likes to present this assumption as the predicate for the charges, a claim for which there's no evidence.)
28% : Those charges, centered on his retention of classified documents after leaving the White House, were generally seen as the biggest threat to Trump -- until Cannon was tapped as the judge overseeing the case.
21% : Those charges do mean that Trump will at some point face criminal sanction (assuming that his efforts to have the conviction thrown out aren't successful), which poses an obvious risk.
9% : On Thursday, the judge overseeing the case brought against Trump (and a number of his allies) in Fulton County, Ga., dismissed two more of the 13 charges Trump had originally faced.

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