Former President Donald Trump maintained his lead over President Biden among nearly 2,000 swing state voters after the guilty verdict in his Manhattan hush money trial, according to a new poll.
Trump, 77, held a 1 point edge over Biden, 81, when 1,897 participants in a previous New York Times/Siena College survey of voters in six battleground states were recontacted between June 3-4.
However, the presumptive Republican nominee for president suffered a modest drop in support, with his 48%-45% lead over the incumbent from April and May polling falling to a slim 47%-46% advantage.
Trump retained 93% of the voters who backed him in the earlier survey, with 3% indicating they now support Biden and 4% shifting to undecided.
Young, nonwhite and disengaged Democratic-leaning voters were the most likely to abandon Trump in the wake of his guilty verdict, the survey found.
Trump also lost 20% of voters who responded that they disliked both of the 2024 presidential candidates.
Meanwhile, Biden retained 96% of his supporters when recontacted by the pollster.
More than 1.5% of former Biden supporters indicated that they would vote for Trump despite his conviction on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.
Only 3% of Biden supporters said after the verdict that they moved from ”unlikely to vote” to “almost certain” to do so, compared to 18% for Trump backers.
The New York Times/Siena College survey findings come one day after a post-verdict poll of Michigan voters also saw Trump maintaining his lead over Biden.
The Mitchell-Michigan News Source Poll found the former president ahead of the incumbent by 0.6 points in a head-to-head matchup and by 1.2 points in a five-way race with third-party candidates.