Pardon Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : And in that way, President Biden could set a good example in saying that the pain and strife Trump caused in the 2020 election and its aftermath was laid to rest sufficiently by voters in the 2024 result.
55% : The word "disqualifying" was at the heart of the highly unusual coalition of traditional Democrats and conservatives who fought Trump from the moment he left office until he won a return trip.
46% : But Trump won on the two biggest issues in the minds of voters -- the economy and immigration -- and on the essential question of every presidential election, albeit just barely, on the matter of "looks out for people like you."
43% : According to AP VoteCast data, even 1 in 5 of the people who voted for Trump themselves said their preferred candidate couldn't meet that standard.
40% : In an election in which a Republican won the popular vote for only the second time in almost 40 years, majorities of voters of every age, status, ethnicity, and gender agreed -- even groups that Trump won overwhelmingly -- that he is not an honest and trustworthy person.
38% : Even if, maybe especially if, he doesn't think Trump deserves it.
33% : Seventy percent of independents said Trump wasn't honest and trustworthy.
30% : But those are folks for whom $199 wouldn't be too much to pay just to smell like Trump.
28% : But for her closing argument, Harris returned to the scene of Trump's fateful January 6, 2021, rally and to the issue that has been at the heart of her party since before Trump won the first time: his unfitness for office.
27% : They mattered also to the people who don't want to smell like Trump, but who sincerely believed that the criminal justice system was being abused in furtherance of political objectives.
22% : Trump had committed the most serious offenses in plain sight and details on everything else had been litigated and relitigated for years before Election Day 2024.
15% : Vice President Kamala Harris tried to shift her message away from those concerns to a painfully self-conscious middle-class, middle-of-the-road pitch to soothe voters hurting from inflation and worried about the excesses of the Democrats' cultural backlash against Trump.
12% : Starting in 2019 with his first impeachment for strong-arming the president of Ukraine for dirt on Trump's eventual challenger for reelection and the successful suit for battery and defamation by a woman who says Trump raped her in the mid-1990s, the issue of Trump's personal misconduct and legal woes have been right at the very center of the political world.
11% : The many foes of Donald Trump who fell short in their yearslong quest to bring him to justice would not approve, arguing that Trump has never been convicted of the most serious offenses nor shown even an iota of remorse.

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