Do Americans really not care whether a candidate for president is a convicted felon?

We'll dig into the numbers for you.

You've heard your friends say both candidates are bad,

as justification for either not voting or voting for Trump will help you respond to the quote unquote double

haters. Finally we'll talk US Supreme Court with law professor and author Joshua Douglas.

Welcome back to the podcast for the 54% of Americans who regularly vote for progress in every election and want to convince their friends and family members to join a majority.

This is majority 54.

All right, Jason.

Well, this is an interesting week because I think this is kind of the quiet before the storm.

We're about to have the debates, the conventions, Trump's sentencing, things are about to get hot and I think it's a good time to step back and say well where does this race stand?

And Political had an interesting article where they basically asked the question, well, how are voters viewing Trump's conviction?

And they found that among the voters that they polled, 21% of independence said the conviction made them less likely to support Trump

and it would be an important factor in their vote.

So that cuts in one direction,

yet they found that a sizable percentage of folks either agreed strongly or somewhat

agreed that the rationale for the case was political.

And so it kind of cuts both ways.

I have a general theory about how this shapes up at the moment,

but I'm curious as to whether this just taught you anything new.

I did not teach me anything new.

Unfortunately, this confirms what I suspected would be the case.

And there are two schools of thought on why this is. One school of thought is that people have

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