2023-05-10 06:01:13
The ruling against Donald Trump in the civil case for sexual assault and defamation This Tuesday now triggers the questions about the impact what will happen in their political aspirations to return to fight for the White House and to return to the Oval Office, if it has one, as well as in the electoral race for the 2024 presidential election, in which the democrat Joe Biden He has already announced that he will seek re-election.
Something that was recently read in ‘The New Yorker’ magazine feels right: “Sometimes it seems that the superpoder of Donald Trump is to have been accused of so many transgressions that no one alone can change public perception about him”. And ‘The New York Times’ recalled today after the jury’s ruling that “the criminal investigations against him they have done little to harm him among those who support him and it remains to be seen if this verdict will be a different story.”
Favorite in polls
Trump is not only the favorite at this time to achieve republican nominationa more than 29 points away from the second best positioned, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantisaccording to average number of polls maintained by Real Clear Politics. Since he was indicted with 34 counts in the criminal case filed by the Manhattan district attorney led by Democrat Alvin Bragg his numbers have not stopped improving practically in no time. Meanwhile, DeSantis’s meteoric career runs out of steam.
Trump’s numbers in those polls and his strength in his third assault on the White House are striking for someone who is also on the lookout for possible charges in other criminal cases: those who investigate their possible election interference in Georgia in the 2020 presidential elections, the potential irregular handling of classified documents after leaving the White House and the obstruction of those investigations, and the one who has in the spotlight the role he played in the storming the capitol and in attempts to reverse the legitimate results of the election he lost to Joe Biden.
“Unsettling”
For Jennifer Horn, the former chair of the New Hampshire Republicans but a staunch opponent of Trump, it is “strange” to see a candidate with such an intense legal fence around him. But “heor really disturbing is that it is the favorite of one of the two parties. You can’t blame him for that,” the expert told ‘The New York Times’. You have to blame the party leaders and its main bases”.
Also Christina Wolbrecht, a professor of politics at the University of Notre Dame, thinks that above all we will have to be aware of the impact that Trump’s legal problems have on donors and advisors. But the political scientist specializing in politics and gender studies is convinced that “at this point, Americans already have a good idea of Trump’s character”, and in a statement to the AP, she opined that “it is Carroll trial unlikely to change views of many voters”.
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A first pulse can be taken this Wednesday. At 8 pm (2 am in Spain) Trump plans to participate in a meeting with voters in new hamsphire “town hall” style organized and broadcast by CNN.
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