people to be less inclined to vote for Trump to make it safe for other people to say, oh, lots of people are changing their mind because of the felony. I guess I could do that too. So the point of the polling is to tell you what normal people are thinking even if they're not, so that you, thinking you're a normal person too, can maybe be a little more likely to be persuaded to be on the same side with the normal people.

So let's see what the normal people said. About half of Americans believe Trump should end his campaign after the guilty verdict. Half of Americans think he should end his campaign because of the guilty verdict. Does that sound like a legitimate poll? Before I even tell you the answer, I mean, you didn't even need to know what the answer was. Does that sound legitimate? Let me tell you what's wrong with it, if it wasn't jumping out at you. Here's what's wrong with it. This is a poll in which they ask you to compare Trump to Trump. Did you get that? It's a poll about the election in which you're asked to compare Trump to himself. So you're comparing Trump not convicted to a Trump convicted. Is that what you're going to vote for when you go to the election or you mail in your ballot? Are you going to say, huh, who do I vote for, Trump who wasn't convicted or Trump who was convicted? No, that's not your choice. That's not your choice. The choice is only, and the only one that matters, Trump versus Biden. Right? That's the only one that matters. And if you ask a different question so that you can get an answer that sounds more like what you want to hear, that's an influence poll. That's not about information.

All right. At the same time, in the article on this, it says that Trump's approval level stayed the same. So could it be true that half of Americans think he should drop out of the race at the same time that his approval levels stay the same? If his approval levels had changed, you maybe that would be telling you something.

All right, so here's