A majority of people who voted for President Joe Biden at the 2020 election believe his son, Hunter Biden, should serve prison time following his gun charge conviction, according to a poll.
A Redfield & Wilton Strategies survey of 2,500 registered voters, conducted exclusively for Newsweek, found that 60 percent believe that Hunter Biden should be handed a custodial sentence following the guilty verdict against him. A total of 57 percent who previously voted for his father also believe Hunter Biden should be imprisoned.
Just over one in five voters (21 percent) believe Hunter Biden should not serve prison time when he is sentenced, with slightly fewer (19 percent) saying they don’t know.
Hunter Biden was found guilty by a Delaware jury in June of illegally buying a gun while using drugs, specifically crack cocaine, and lying on a government form about his drug use when he made the purchase in May 2018.
He faces up to a maximum 25 years in jail when he is sentenced at a date no later than October 9.
Hunter Biden, who has become the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime, denied the charges. He claimed he was not an active drug user at the time he purchased the firearm as he had recently undergone a stint of rehab.
Legal experts have suggested that Hunter Biden may not receive a custodial sentence due to federal guidelines and the nature of the crime.
David Bredin, who runs the Bredin Law Firm in New York, previously suggested Hunter Biden may only end up spending around year in prison.
“Factoring in good behavior, he will be released early as he has no criminal history, and other guidelines are taken into account,” Bredin told Newsweek.