The PBS NewsHour quickly rounded up its semi-regular focus group of GOP voters one day after Donald Trump’s conviction in a Manhattan courtroom on 34 felony counts for falsifying business records (misdemeanors inflated to felonies). They touted that six of nine in their collection of two-time Trump voters said that Trump’s conviction made them less likely to vote Trump in 2024.
PBS pounced on Friday, with anchor Amna Nawaz getting the focus-group scoop via “Republicans Against Trump” organizer Sarah Longwell and the staff’s biggest liberal activist, White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Amna, this focus group was of voters who voted for Donald Trump twice in 2016 and in 2020. And they were slightly already a little souring on him, but some of them could have very well gone back to him. And it was conducted by a group run by…
