The problem for those who are counting on a felony conviction in New York to derail Trump is that, to fair-minded people, the conviction would not stand for the proposition that Trump actually committed a genuine felony. Instead, it would stand only for the proposition that a bunch of Trump-hating Democrats (the prosecutor, who campaigned on the promise to prosecute Trump, and the jury drawn from the electorate that received this promise) decided, with a big assist from a Trump-hating judge, that Trump committed a felony that doesn’t seem like a felony.

I’m not inclined to let my vote be influenced by the opinions and prejudices of Trump-hating New Yorkers. I doubt that voters in states like Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona are so inclined, either.