6/13/2023

Trump indictment turns 2024 election upside down, but not the way Democrats hope

 

June 13, 2023

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Joe Biden is desperate to run against Donald Trump in 2024. His campaign team imagines that the current president is likely to beat the former president, as he did in 2020. The corollary is that they’re not at all convinced he could win over anybody else. 

Hence, the indictment of Donald Trump on charges of mishandling classified information, which inevitably fuels Trump’s grievance agenda, raises money for his campaign, and appears to have further solidified his standing as front-runner in the crowded GOP primary field. The charges are meant to make his nomination inevitable but weaken his appeal in the general election.

Biden’s apparatchiks may have overplayed their hand. According to a CBS News poll taken between June 7 and June 10, half the country thinks Trump’s indictment was politically motivated. The responses are partisan, with 69% of Republicans judging the charges political and only 8% of Democrats. But a plurality of Independents – the fastest-growing and now largest political group in the country –side with GOP respondents in the matter.

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