CBS Anchor Dishes Out Brutal News For Trump — Whopping 57 Percent Agree With Trump Felony Convictions

CBS anchor Margaret Brennan doled out some brutal news for former President Donald Trump — including the fact that a whopping 57 percent of voters agree with the jury that convicted him of 34 felonies.

Speculation of all types has abounded since the jury in the Stormy Daniels hush money trial returned “guilty” verdicts on all 34 felony counts last Thursday — and Judge Juan Merchan scheduled sentencing for July 11.

While the convictions have supercharged Trump’s fundraising and amped up Republicans, the ramifications for the general election could be quite different if a CBS News/YouGov poll taken after the verdict is any indication.

On Sunday’s edition of Face the Nation Brennan opened her show by running down some of those results, which showed somewhat predictable partisan splits — but overwhelming support for the verdict from independent voters:

The seven-week New York criminal trial is over. Former President Donald Trump has been found guilty on all 34 charges against him. And he is now able to campaign freely until July 11, when he will be sentenced. That’s exactly four days before he is officially nominated at the party’s convention in Milwaukee.

As a felon, Trump cannot own a firearm or serve in a jury, but he can vote for himself, as he can run and be elected president. But we are clearly in uncharted territory, and it will be some time before we can fully see the impact of the conviction.

Our new CBS News poll finds that 57 percent of Americans think the jury reached the right verdict, with virtually the same share, 56 percent, saying he received a fair trial.

As more evidence of the partisan split in America, 96 percent of Democrats said the guilty verdict was the right one. So did 56 percent of independents. But eight in 10 Republicans say the verdict was the wrong one and that the trial was not fair.

Finally, half think that Trump is not fit to be president now that he’s convicted, with 40 percent saying he is and 8 percent unsure.

What you just heard Trump say about the case coming from Washington is not true. Charges in this case were brought by the Manhattan district attorney. It is a state case, which means an appeal would not automatically go to the Supreme Court.

Watch above via Face the Nation .