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09.11 EDT Trump maintains edge despite mounting legal troubles
From the rape lawsuit in New York City to Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg’s allegations of falsifying business records to ongoing investigations by federal and state prosecutors, Americans are well aware of the swirl of legal troubles around Donald Trump.
But that doesn’t seem to have undone his popularity among Republicans, nor seen him sink in the polls against Joe Biden. The former president is by far the favorite among the GOP when it comes to their nominee next year, according to the poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight.
For Biden, a Washington Post-ABC News survey released over the weekend confirmed he has problems of his own. The survey found voters believed Trump did a better job handling the economy than the current president, and was in better physical and mental health. The worst part was that the data showed Trump beating Biden in a general election mashup – legal troubles be damned, apparently.
Source: The Guardian US
