ABC's Stephanopoulos issues another election warning after Trump verdict: 'Ultimate stress test'

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ABC News host George Stephanopoulos issued another warning on Sunday about the 2024 presidential election and asked his viewers if they really wanted to be led by a convicted felon, former President Donald Trump.

"In 1774, John Adams said, ‘representative government and trial by jury are the heart and lungs of liberty.' Two hundred-fifty years later, the heart and lungs of liberty are facing what may be the ultimate stress test," Stephanopoulos said during his show, "This Week."

A jury found Trump guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Manhattan criminal case on Thursday.

While Stephanopoulos noted that other criminal cases against Trump had yet to be resolved, he told viewers, "But for now, the New York jurors have already presented their fellow citizens with a choice: do we want to be represented, to be led for the first time in history by a convicted felon? That answer will come in November."

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After President Biden called on reporters to take the 2024 election very seriously and move past the "gotcha" moments during his speech at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in late April, Stephanopoulos also took the time to argue that the presidential contest was anything but normal.

"It’s all too easy to fall into reflexive