Trump's election helped him with his criminal cases. What about the civil lawsuits he faces?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : A trial judge ordered Trump to pay $454 million in February after concluding Trump inflated the value of his assets for years to get better loan and insurance terms.
50% : With interest still accruing, Trump now owes more than $485 million in that case.
46% : The ruling reversed decisions from two lower courts and surprised many legal experts who had predicted that, even if the Supreme Court granted Trump some immunity, the immunity would be more limited.
44% : Trump has already appealed the verdicts in three civil cases in New York in which, with accumulating interest, he is now facing about $600 million in liability, and he may think he has a decent chance of getting that liability chopped down or tossed out on other grounds.
42% : Trump has denied wrongdoing, and he has appealed the judgment.
39% : The Carroll and civil fraud cases, which were filed after Trump's first presidency, involve massive awards and issues Trump has shown he cares about: he attended several days of the civil fraud trial and the second E. Jean Carroll trial when he wasn't required to.
32% : One of the cases deals with defamation for statements Trump made in 2019, while he was in his first presidential term.
31% : Trump said his presidential election changes the legal picture because it creates responsibilities for him both as president-elect and later as president that a local prosecution shouldn't be allowed to interfere with under the Constitution.
29% : Trump could go on to file motions asking courts to dismiss the civil cases, claiming they - with their massive judgments - will unconstitutionally distract from and interfere with his upcoming presidency, just as he is arguing that his two state criminal cases should be be fully dismissed for those reasons.
29% : Trump denies Carroll's claims and has appealed those rulings.
28% : Trump could say that is a crucial difference.
28% : Furthermore, the Supreme Court's July 1 presidential immunity ruling in Trump v. United States on the federal charges Trump was facing for allegedly trying to unlawfully overturn the 2020 election showed the conservative majority on today's Supreme Court was open to a broad argument for immunity, at least in a criminal context.
26% : Trump's transition team didn't comment directly on whether Trump plans to argue in court that his election should affect his civil cases.
25% : "Trump could argue that was faulty reasoning in light of all the litigation he has faced in his lifetime.
24% : "After Trump versus the United States, I have no idea what they will do," Mitchell Epner, a long-time New York litigator and former New Jersey federal prosecutor, told USA TODAY.
21% : But will his election victory help Trump delay or avoid paying the approximately $600 million in civil case judgments against him?Trump has already begun to argue that it should.
15% : Trump previews a civil immunity argument?Trump filed a 69-page motion in his New York criminal case this week that previews the type of argument he could raise to try to get his civil cases paused or fully dismissed.
14% : However, Trump could argue that the Clinton case doesn't apply to him because the circumstances in his cases are different from those in the Clinton case.
12% : Trump could also argue that the litigation he has faced shows the Clinton ruling was wrong and should be overturned.
10% : Trump lawyer John Sauer sent New York Attorney General Letitia James a letter Nov. 26 noting the Justice Department was dropping its criminal cases against Trump and urging her to do the same with her civil fraud lawsuit.
9% : Supreme Court ruled against Bill Clinton in 1997The strongest argument against any effort by Trump to get his civil cases paused or dismissed may be a 1997 Supreme Court ruling in a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former Arkansas state employee, Paula Jones, against against then-President Bill Clinton.

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