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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

This week, Politico released a new poll that contained some pretty big surprises.

A larger than expected percentage of Americans say Donald Trump's criminal conviction in Manhattan

makes them less likely to vote for him. The finding is even more striking among independence.

What's interesting here as well, however, is that the Politico poll took an innovative step.

It tried to gauge how important Trump's conviction is to voters in the larger scheme of things.

And the answer is pretty important.

Today we're chatting about this with Ancouche Carduri, a senior writer for Politico, who oversaw this poll. He's going to take us

through these findings and what they really mean. Great to have you back on, Ancush. Thanks for

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