A longtime political scientist predicted that voters will feel differently about Donald Trump when it comes down to two clear choices on the ballot.
Norman Ornstein, an emeritus scholar at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank, reacted on MSNBC on Sunday to a new poll showing Trump ahead of President Joe Biden in five key swing states in a hypothetical 2024 matchup.
“One of the things that I think is clear here is that most voters have paid no or little attention to Donald Trump’s legal problems,” Ornstein told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi. “That will change when we get criminal trials. And especially if and when we get convictions.”
Ornstein said that a lot will change over the course of the next year.
“When we get down to two choices, and we have one presidential candidate who is for a complete Muslim ban, who has supported and lunched with Nazis or neo-Nazis and who has criminal convictions,” he said, noting that combined with the issue of abortion,…