Survey finds strong support for Trump among WA prison population

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : That's according to a sweeping national survey from The Marshall Project on the political opinions of incarcerated people, which found that 48% of the 954 respondents from Washington said they preferred Trump and 29% said they preferred Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat's nominee.
44% : Nationally, 46% of the respondents preferred Trump and 33% preferred Harris.
34% : "The Marshall Project also conducted a survey when President Joe Biden was the Democratic nominee, in which 54% of 2,166 Washington prisoners said they preferred Trump, compared to 12% supporting Biden.
27% : "Lewis also pointed out that people who follow politics less closely -- so-called "low-information" voters -- tend to support Trump, and that people in prison, often "through no fault of their own," don't have as much access to information on the outside world.
25% : However, beliefs on whether Trump should have been convicted of a felony differ inside prison, just as they do on the outside.
25% : One Washington respondent said he related to Trump, believing he was a "victim of being overcharged like me" and he should have only been found guilty of a misdemeanor.

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