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“It’s a net positive every single time because it thrusts him back to the top of the news cycle as a martyr,” one Republican strategist said. “The base is certainly energized by having a fight to engage. They see the DOJ and the Biden administration as waging a war against the former Republican president.”

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The indictment against Donald Trump in the federal Jan. 6 probe is just the latest set of charges threatening to eclipse his Republican primary opponents as they struggle to gain traction against the former president in the polls.

DeSantis echoed his calls to “end the weaponization of the federal government” in a statement, while Scott noted what he said there were “two different tracks of justice” for Trump and Hunter Biden.

Meanwhile, former Vice President Mike Pence finds himself in a particularly tough spot given his pushback against Trump on Jan. 6 and the fact that he is considered a key witness in the case.

But following Tuesday’s indictment, Pence maintained that he had no right to overturn the 2020 election results as vice president and that Trump’s legal advisers just told him what he wanted to hear.

Despite Haley urging GOP voters to move on and Pence maintaining that Trump’s actions on Jan 6 were wrong, neither of them, or any of the other candidates for that matter, have been able to leapfrog the former president in the polls.


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[–] itsJoelle 8 points 2 years ago

Guess Pence is off the ticket in 2024 🤣

I don't really see the comparison to Hunter Biden and Hillary not being charged for the accusations made against them. To my knowledge there isn't multiple tapes of them admitting to the crime verbatim and proceeding to commit it. It's not even comparable.

[–] SulaymanF 7 points 2 years ago

What a bizarre world where an indictment makes you more popular to voters.

He simply must lose in order to help break this fever. Political scientists say that a party that loses 3 elections eventually has to moderate itself, and in 2016 the GOP was so very close, with Paul Ryan having pre planned speeches and policies to roll out after Trump’s expected loss.