Biden making Trump the ‘Nelson Mandela of America’: Pollster

Voters are angered at what they see as Democratic strong-arm tactics to take out America’s most popular politician with legal and political tactics and believe that President Joe Biden and his Justice Department are behind it.

Nearly 7 in 10 voters, or 69%, believe that politics “has played” a role in the four indictments against Trump, according to a new survey shared with Secrets.

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What’s more, 58% believe that Biden has played a role in delivering those indictments, including one-third of Democrats, 54% of black people, and 58% of Hispanics. And 56% want the Justice Department to “stop targeting Donald Trump and interfering with the upcoming presidential election and Biden should let the voters decide who the next president should be,” the survey said.

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“Biden is trying to make Donald Trump the Nelson Mandela of America,” said Trump pollster John McLaughlin, who provided Secrets with his latest national poll.

Mandela spent 27 years in jail because he opposed South Africa’s white leadership and he was elected president when he was eventually freed, turned out of jail as a hero for standing firm in rejecting his opponents.

The poll was done before the left-leaning Colorado Supreme Court booted Trump off the primary ballot pending an appeal, but McLaughlin said the move fits a pattern Republican and some moderate voters see as a Soviet-style effort to silence enemies.

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“To disenfranchise the leading political candidate in the United States is sad for American democracy and freedoms,” he said.

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As with the indictments, McLaughlin said that the ballot banning in Colorado and any other state is likely to backfire and make Trump stronger, a pattern the pollster has been charting for months.

“It’s only galvanizing the support for him, the political persecution. It’s scary,” he said.

“So far all their indictments have backfired and made Trump stronger because the majority of fair-minded Americans see this for what it is. And now with the decision to take him off the ballot, people are losing their civil rights. Trump’s losing his right to free speech and his right as a citizen and in the meantime you have the voters losing their civil rights to vote to decide who they want as president. And if they can do this to Trump they can do it to any Republican or any political opponent,” the New York-based pollster and partner in McLaughlin & Associates added.

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McLaughlin also polls for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and has for other Eastern European politicians in former Soviet states. He said that Orban and others see similarities between what is happening to Trump and how the communists took control of Hungary in 1947.

“I’ve got European clients who are telling me this is what the communists did in 1947. And they’re like, ‘Biden can’t lecture us about democracy,’ you know, because they have free elections,” McLaughlin said.