president.
>> For more on the political
fallout of the guilty
conviction, we heard from
Republican voters about how this
impacts their thoughts on the
former president and the
upcoming election.
You watched this with a group of
voters.
How are they reacting?
>> This focus group was voters
who voted for him twice.
They were slightly already a
little souring on him.
Some of them could have gone
back to them.
It was conducted by a group run
by a Republican strategist.
After this verdict, they said
about six of the voters that the
fact that these were felony
convictions, that carried more
weight for them than if they had
been misdemeanors.
Out of those nine voters, five
of them said this made them less
likely to support Donald Trump,
including a 52-year-old from
Florida.
>> I am tired of the lies and
the nonsense.
I believed the testimony.
That is why I am happy that the
jury found him guilty.
I think now that he is a
convicted felon, he is unfit.
He cannot paste -- pass a basic
security clearance at this
point.
He may not be allowed to go to
different countries as a felon.
This is not appropriate.
Republicans need to find
somebody else.
>> That voters had voted for
Republicans her entire life.
Voted for trump twice.
But that verdict carried a lot
of weight with her and a number
of the other voters.
Some of them raised January 6 as
something that had started to
convince them that they maybe
could not vote for trump again.
>> So she is less likely to vote
for him.
Was anybody pushed closer to
him?
>> One out of the nine voters
said this verdict made him more
likely to support Donald Trump.
He was a 54-year-old from
Georgia.
He called it a sham trial.
>> It was a double standard.
It was a politicized
prosecution.
It was the elevation of
misdemeanors into felonies just
for a political purpose.
>> The voters were also asked
whether or not this verdict may
then trust the justices more or
less or it did not change their
mind.
Three of them said that it may
then trust the justice system
more.
The man we just heard from in
Georgia said it made him not
trust the justice system as
much.
As to whether or not they
thought Donald Trump should go
to jail, another woman from
Georgia had a very strong
response to that.
>> He should serve jail time.
Pay the penalty for the crime.
We know they will negotiate and
renegotiate.
He will not serve any time.
He will get more time on
television.
>> At the end of the day, they
were asked, if you had to pick
between president Biden and
Donald Trump, who would you pick
come November?
Six of them said they would vote
for Joe Biden.
A few of them were unsure.
They said that they might not
vote.
>> Fascinating.
Mr. Trump continued his attack
on the judge in this case.
We have now seen Republicans
relentlessly attacking the
judge, his daughter, the
judicial system.
What is the impact of all of
that?
>> A lot of Republicans in
addition to Donald Trump have
said that they are trying to
show that they directly attacked
the judge in this case.
I was working with an
investigative group that tracks
social media.
They gave us data they have been
gathering.
They were tracking social media.
They found in increasing calls
for violence and violent
rhetoric.
And an increase to dox jurors
and the judges.
Here are some examples.
Someone said hang the judge for
corruption.
Another followers said someone
in New York with nothing to lose
needs to take care of the judge.
Hopefully he gets met with a
machete.
Another one posted that we need
the judges address along with
his daughter.
We will be peacefully protesting
but ultimately they go -- gloves
are off.
That is a website that is used
by the proud boys, who were at
January 6.
Overall there has been an
increase in calls or violence
and dock sing -- doxing.
They may have done that to a
juror but they are still trying
to confirm that.
>> Great reporting as always.
Thank you so much.
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