{"id":1607271,"date":"2022-08-15T17:04:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607271"},"modified":"2022-08-15T17:04:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T21:04:23","slug":"fbi-raid-has-solidified-trumps-clout-in-gop-ahead-of-expected-2024-run-observers-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-raid-has-solidified-trumps-clout-in-gop-ahead-of-expected-2024-run-observers-say\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Raid Has Solidified Trump\u2019s Clout in GOP Ahead of Expected 2024 Run, Observers Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffbi-raid-has-solidified-trumps-clout-in-gop-ahead-of-expected-2024-run-observers-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1607271&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The recent raid by the FBI on former President Donald Trump\u2019s residence has solidified Trump\u2019s hold on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2024\">2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gop\">GOP<\/a> presential nomination, according to conservatives and analysts.<\/p>\n<p>The raid of Mar-a-Lago, Trump\u2019s house in Palm Beach, Florida, was aimed at preventing the former president from gaining office again, they told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, however, the raid has had the opposite effect, they said, as the belief grows that Trump will announce a new presidential run sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n<p>Far from providing a smoking gun that opponents of Trump may have sought to bar the former president from office, the raid has demonstrated that Trump can never be reconciled to partisan special interests in Washington that have a lock on government, thus ensuring that Trump most certainly will run, said some.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, either Trump or the \u201cdeep state\u201d\u2014a group of powerful bureaucrats who Trump and others say really control the shots in Washington\u2014will prevail: That\u2019s the message conservatives should take from the raid, said two people interviewed who are the most familiar with Trump\u2019s thinking, Ken Blackwell and Sebastian Gorka, although neither men claimed to represent the views of the former president.<\/p>\n<p>  Local law enforcement officers in front of the home of former U.S. President Donald Trump at Mar-A-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., on Aug. 9, 2022. (Giorgio Viera\/AFP via Getty Images) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-raid\">Raid<\/a> Has Made Trump More Powerful<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout doubt, President Trump is more powerful now after the illegal Mar-a-Lago raid than he has ever been politically,\u201d former deputy presidential assistant under Trump, Sebastian Gorka, who is one of the former president\u2019s fiercest allies, told the Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Gorka, 51, who hosts a syndicated radio show <a href=\"https:\/\/salemnewschannel.com\/host\/sebastian-gorka\/?utm_source=google&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=search&#038;gclid=Cj0KCQjwuuKXBhCRARIsAC-gM0iRxz0_JMMYEjo_rQfNhvoIp-VJKqEmqXaIHeHNrn4RHyCnH10u0gAaAsmgEALw_wcB\">distributed<\/a> by the Salem Network, estimated that Trump\u2019s base of voters has grown from 75 million voters to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis The recent raid by the FBI on former President Donald Trump\u2019s residence has solidified Trump\u2019s hold on the 2024 GOP presential nomination, according to conservatives and analysts. The raid of Mar-a-Lago, Trump\u2019s house in Palm Beach, Florida, was aimed at preventing the former president from gaining office again, they told The Epoch Times. 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