A Republican strategist and ally of Ron DeSantis thinks Donald Trump’s indictment hurts his nominee and will likely secure the 2024 nomination.
This follows the former US president’s indictment in which he was hit with a total of 37 counts for his handling of classified documents.
The strategist, speaking anonymously to policybelieves it is “too early” to be certain of the nature of the backlash, but that it will likely be bad news for the Florida governor and good news for the ex-president.
“I suspect it secures him the nomination and at least maintains his advantage in the polls for the next month and stunts DeSantis’ growth,” he said.
Another Republican strategist, this one an ally of upstart candidate and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, agrees it “hurts anyone not called Trump in the short term,” but added a caveat.
Republican strategist and Ron DeSantis ally thinks Donald Trump’s indictment hurts his nominee and will likely secure 2024 nomination
This follows the former US president’s indictment in which he was hit with a total of 37 counts for his handling of classified documents.
“At some point, though, you must be thinking Trump has to fall to death by 1,000 cuts? Will this open a door for an underdog?
Maybe support the case that it helps Trump, another policy The editorial said Trump’s case is highly unlikely to be completed before November 2024, with him now active in the race.
“Any national security case comes with additional hurdles that make a speedy trial difficult,” wrote Renato Mariotti.
“Trump’s attorneys will need to obtain clearance to review classified material, a special order will need to be placed to ensure the material is properly protected, and there will likely be fights over classified material provided by the government on discovery. .”
Mariotti adds that “the ball is in Trump’s court” and that he could essentially delay the trial for as long as he needs to.
“The end result is that the proceedings of this unprecedented case will soar above the electoral landscape throughout the next year and potentially well into the administration of whoever the next president is.”
Vivek Ramaswamy, who announced his candidacy for president in February, criticized the federal charges against Trump
For DeSantis and his allies, if his strategist’s prediction that the indictment helps Trump, it couldn’t come at a worse time.
Internal polls from DeSantis backers show the Florida governor gaining ground against Trump in the premier state of Iowa, the nation’s top primary contest.
A New Never Back Down PAC Survey shared with Axios DeSantis has closed the gap between the Trump frontrunner by 14% since his presidential announcement.
In mid-May, before DeSantis officially announced his presidential run at a Twitter Spaces event with Elon Musk, he had 24% in the Iowa polls, compared to Trump’s 48%, a 24% difference.
Weeks later, after officially kicking off his campaign on May 24, the Florida governor won 29% among likely Iowa caucus members to Trump’s 39%.
Now the governor sits in second place with just 10% between him and the former president, while the rest of the field sits even further behind the two favorites.
But when the other candidates were removed from the equation and DeSantis and Trump were put head-to-head, the pro-DeSantis PAC found that the two frontrunners were effectively tied in Iowa — compared to the Governor’s 14-point deficit in mid-May.
Donald Trump left classified documents strewn in his bathroom and the Mar-a-Lago ballroom and bragged to his aides that he took military secrets, according to the incredible indictment unsealed by the Department of Justice on Friday.
Extraordinary new photos (above) revealed in the damning dossier show how Trump valet Walt Nauta entered a storage room and found intelligence files on allies including the UK and Australia, knocked down on the floor
In one photo, the boxes are stacked in front of a shower curtain and next to a sink in a Mar-a-Lago bathroom. Some of Trump’s aides simply called the files “his papers.”
Zooming out nationally, polls show DeSantis typically trailing Trump at least 20 points and the rest of the pack failing to hit double digits.
A new CNN survey conducted on the day of DeSantis’ announcement showed Trump up 56% to DeSantis’ 26%.
The new Never Back Down poll comes on the heels of DeSantis’ first official campaign in the early primary contest states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. He will continue in Nevada later in June.
Trump also visited Iowa last week, riding the DeSantis swing.
Despite upbeat results from the leading PAC backing DeSantis’ GOP primary bid, other polls show he didn’t get the boost expected after the announcement.
A Morning Consult poll taken after DeSantis entered the race shows his position is only up 1% — and he still trails Trump by 38%.
DeSantis started the year by showing some early leads on Trump, but some pollsters say his reluctance to announce his candidacy, and keeping one foot in the race and one foot out, has hurt him among voters.
There are already 11 candidates in the GOP primary race. Among those actually gaining voting ground are former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and current South Carolina Senator Tim Scott.
Other more distant candidates in the running are biotech millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy and Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson.
Former Vice President Mike Pence filed the appropriate documents on Monday to launch a bid for the White House – and New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu revealed the same day that he would not be running in the race.
This week, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum announced their own campaigns.
Trump aide and former “bodyman” Walt Nauta was charged in the same investigation into the classified documents after Trump announced he would be charged Thursday night.
The former president could face 100 years behind bars if convicted on all seven counts related to the mishandling of classified information, according to a report.
