{"id":2002151,"date":"2023-08-16T06:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T10:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-looks-to-consolidate-primary-poll-position-after-fulton-county-indictment\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T06:12:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T10:12:23","slug":"trump-looks-to-consolidate-primary-poll-position-after-fulton-county-indictment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-looks-to-consolidate-primary-poll-position-after-fulton-county-indictment\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump aims to solidify lead in primary polls despite Fulton County indictment."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftrump-looks-to-consolidate-primary-poll-position-after-fulton-county-indictment%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=2002151&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--><h2>2024 Republican Presidential Candidates Face Challenges Amid Trump&#8217;s Latest Indictment<\/h2>\n<p>Many 2024 Republican presidential candidates premised their campaigns on former President Donald Trump&#8217;s political\u2062 demise.<\/p>\n<p>But with Trump&#8217;s latest indictment poised to \u200dconsolidate his support among the Republican base, that may have been a bad bet one week before their first primary debate.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden Heads to Wisconsin Neck and Neck with Trump<\/h3>\n<p>With the publication of Fulton County \u200dDistrict \u2062Attorney Fani \u200bWillis&#8217;s 98-page indictment in Georgia, the public has a better understanding\u2063 of \u2063Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-looks-to-consolidate-primary-poll-position-after-fulton-county-indictment\/\" title=\"Trump aims to solidify lead in primary polls despite Fulton County indictment.\">legal jeopardy amid<\/a> the primary\u2062 and before next year&#8217;s\u200c general election. \u200dBut that understanding is unlikely to change\u2064 the dynamics of the race, at least \u200cbefore more trials start, according to Republican strategist Doug Heye.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t really seen \u2064any of\u2063 the Republicans \u200brunning against Trump \u2063change anything,&#8221;\u2063 Heye told\u200b the Washington Examiner. &#8220;Whenever Donald \u2062Trump has been indicted, it reinforces his messaging, which I&#8217;d say is\u2064 false, but that &#8216;the system is rigged and a two-tier system of justice&#8217; and all \u200dof that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But what we also see are that the people running against him don&#8217;t then use that against him as they \u200dwould with any other opponent in any other campaign,&#8221; \u2063the former Republican National Committee\u2064 spokesman said.\u2064 &#8220;Not only do they not use \u200dit against him,\u200c they back his messaging up. They, ultimately, say, &#8216;My opponent is\u200c completely right and is being victimized.&#8217; So what would change?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Democratic\u200b operative Sandy Maisel agreed, noting the exception of Trump critics former Govs. Chris \u2063Christie of New Jersey and Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas, in addition to former Texas Rep. Will Hurd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are afraid \u200dof the GOP base, not leading it,&#8221; the Colby College visiting politics instructor and one-time candidate said. &#8220;In so \u2063doing, they are making Trump stronger in the primary contest and giving themselves\u2063 less of a\u2063 chance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Candidates \u200cwho are positioning themselves for Trump&#8217;s 35% of the party should he implode cannot depend on hope alone, per Heye, though he contended Gov. Ron\u200b DeSantis (R-FL)&#8217;s campaign \u2064problems are due to &#8220;artificial&#8221; name identification, the former \u2063president&#8217;s attacks against him, and &#8220;outsized expectations in the media&#8221; instead of\u200c the indictments.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hope has never \u2063been\u200c a \u200cpolitical strategy,&#8221; Heye said. &#8220;Again, in any other \u2063campaign, if your opponent, primary or general, \u200bgets \u200dindicted, you don&#8217;t hope something happens, you help make\u2063 that happen. And what we&#8217;ve seen from those who are running against Trump, they&#8217;re more\u200d running against him in theory because they&#8217;re loathe to be critical of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the same time, President Joe Biden&#8217;s polling \u200dagainst Trump has not improved, remaining inside the margin of error. \u2064In a still hypothetical \u200dhead-to-head matchup, the pair\u200d are neck \u200band neck, with Biden leading by an average of less than \u2062a percentage point, 45%-44%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re both flawed and damaged candidates, even within their parties,&#8221; Heye said. &#8220;You have Democrats who support Biden but\u2062 are not enthusiastic about him, and then you have candidates who \u200dotherwise would be completely\u200d marginal, certainly [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] as the best example, \u2063getting \u200dmore \u200dthan they otherwise would.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Maisel was adamant Trump&#8217;s indictments will\u2062 impede him in the general election, particularly among independent voters, &#8220;even if \u200ctrials are not held until\u200b after the election, as some\u200c surely will not be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The cases against him &#8230; are \u2062strong, and his defenses are weak,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Again, why don\u2019t more Republicans see this \u2063baffles me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who denies \u200bany wrongdoing, now must defend himself against a combined 91 federal and state criminal counts after an Atlanta grand jury indicted him and\u2063 18 co-defendants, \u2064including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and former\u200c New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as part of a two-year investigation into his efforts to overturn Georgia&#8217;s 2020 election results. Trump faces 13 counts for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt\u2063 Organizations Act, conspiring to impersonate\u200c a\u200c public officer, soliciting a public official to violate an oath, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-court-website-posts-document-with-13-charges-against-trump-and-then-deletes-it\/\" title=\"Georgia court website briefly published a document listing 13 charges against Trump, which was later removed.\">filing false documents<\/a>, such as by asking Georgia \u2062Secretary of State \u2062Brad Raffensperger to &#8220;find&#8221; almost 12,000 votes and his criticism of poll worker Ruby \u2062Freeman, with the former president unable to pressure the Justice\u200b Department to dismiss the state case or pardon himself if he is \u200dreelected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any desire\u200c to be first or last,\u201d Willis said.\u2064 \u201cWe do want to move this case \u200balong, so we will be asking for \u200ba proposed order that occurs a trial date within the next six months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has five trials \u200ctentatively set between now and May,\u2064 with his E. Jean Carroll civil defamation lawsuit to start the same \u200bday as the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses. His criminal cases will require his presence \u2064in the \u200ccourtroom, \u200ddrawing him away from the campaign trail, but his opponents have mostly defended him, promising\u2062 to pardon him if he is found guilty of any federal charges.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2024-republican-presidential-candidates-trump-indictment\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs someone who\u2019s running for President against Trump, I\u2019d volunteer\u2063 to\u2064 write the amicus brief to the court myself: prosecutors should not be deciding U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-is-going-on-minnesota-and-wisconsin-both-had-89-90-turnout-something-that-is-highly-unlikely\/\" title=\"What is Going On? Minnesota and Wisconsin BOTH had 89%-90% Turnout -- Something That Is Highly Unlikely\">presidential elections<\/a>, and if they\u2019re so overzealous that\u2063 they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-indicted-2024-rivals-largely-remain-quiet\/\" title=\"2024 rivals stay silent as Donald Trump faces indictment.\">commit constitutional violations<\/a>, then the cases should be thrown out &#038; they should be held accountable,\u201d biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his Fulton County co-defendants\u2062 have until\u200d noon Aug. 25 to surrender, with the former president scheduled to hold a press conference at Bedminster, New Jersey, next Monday. The debate is next Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many 2024 Republican candidates based their campaigns on the assumption that former President Donald Trump&#8217;s political influence would decline. However, Trump&#8217;s recent indictment is likely to strengthen his support among the Republican base, making this a risky bet just before their first primary debate. Biden&#8217;s popularity in Wisconsin is on par with Trump&#8217;s, as reported by Fulton County District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2002152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}