Trump maintains his advantage in the survey as he travels to Florida to face accusations.
Trump arrives in Florida, Reuters MIAMI -According to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll, the clear majority of his fellow Republicans think the case is politically motivated. Former President Donald Trump landed in Miami on Monday to face federal criminal charges.
On Tuesday at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT), Trump, the front-runner for the Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential race, is due in a Miami federal courtroom for an initial hearing in the matter.
Trump arrives in Florida
Trump has maintained his innocence and vowed to continue his campaign to win the president back in a November 2024 election despite being accused of illegally holding American national security documents and lying to officials who tried to reclaim them.
On Wednesday, Trump, who will be 77 years old, arrived in Miami at 2:54 p.m. (1854 GMT) aboard a private plane bearing his name.
Outside the golf club he owns in the area, where he planned to spend the night, supporters gathered.He wrote on his Truth Social social media platform before leaving New Jersey, “I HOPE THE ENTIRE COUNTRY IS WATCHING WHAT THE RADICAL LEFT ARE DOING TO AMERICA.”
Republican voters have not been influenced by Trump’s legal difficulties.
According to a Monday Reuters/Ipsos poll, 81% of Republicans believed the accusations were politically motivated. The poll also revealed that Trump continues to command a sizable lead over his opponents for the party’s presidential candidacy.
Around 43 percent of Republicans who self-identified as such claimed that Donald Trump was their preferred candidate, as opposed to 22% who selected Trump’s main competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Early in May, before DeSantis officially entered the race, Trump had a 49% to 19% lead against DeSantis.
President Joe Biden, a Democrat, has been charged by Donald Trump of organizing the federal case to harm his campaign. Biden has avoided discussing the case and has chosen not to do so.
Chris Christie, a former New Jersey governor and adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, was asked whether he believed the Biden Administration had utilized the Department of Justice against Trump during a CNN town hall on Monday night.
Over the weekend, Trump addressed a raucous audience in Georgia, and his campaign said that he would make a statement on Tuesday night, when he returns to New Jersey.
Officials have raised security worries in light of the recent memory of the Trump supporters’ assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The city of Miami is planning expecting crowds of up to 50,000 people, and numerous streets in the downtown area may need to be closed, according to Manny Morales, the chief of police in Miami.
According to a grand jury indictment released last week, Special Counsel Jack Smith accuses Trump of taking thousands of papers containing some of the most sensitive national security secrets when he left the White House in January 2021 and storing them carelessly at his Mar-a-Lago Florida estate.
In order to reduce the influence of politics, Smith, the special counsel overseeing the case, has more autonomy than regular Justice Department prosecutors. He is also looking at Trump’s efforts to have his loss to Biden in 2020 overturned.
Boxes of documents may be seen in the indictment’s photos being kept in a restroom, on a stage in a ballroom, and all over the floor of a storage room.
Trump may have told officials attempting to get them back lies, according to the indictment.
Trump is the only president, past or present, to be charged with a crime, but legal experts say even if he is convicted, he can still run for election and assume the office of president.
Legal experts think the case is compelling, including William Barr, Trump’s former attorney general. The accusations include contravening the Espionage Act, which makes it illegal to possess defense material without authorization, and conspiring to impede justice, which carries a possible 20-year jail sentence.
Any federal trial in Florida may not begin until after the presidential election in November 2024. Trump will be on trial in March 2024 in a different case involving a hush-money payment to a porn star in a New York state court.
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