Trump Guilty Verdict Adds Twist to 2024 Race: A Convicted Felon

No major presidential nominee has been a convicted felon
Trump has survived impeachments, scandals throughout career

WATCH: Donald Trump was found guilty in the first criminal trial of a former US President in the nation’s history. David Gura reports from outside the court house in New York.Source: Bloomberg

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By Joshua Green

May 30, 2024 at 11:18 PM UTC

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The guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial injects an explosive and unpredictable new variable into a presidential race locked in stasis, distinguished primarily by voter frustrations with their choice of two well-known and unpopular major candidates.

After running in largely non-competitive and drama-free primary races, President Joe Biden and Trump now enter the general election campaign navigating a sudden and unprecedented scenario in US political history: the leading candidate in the presidential race is a convicted felon.