{"id":2257290,"date":"2024-06-01T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/battleground-republicans-prepare-to-run-with-felon-trump-at-top-of-ticket\/"},"modified":"2024-06-01T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T11:32:08","slug":"battleground-republicans-prepare-to-run-with-felon-trump-at-top-of-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/battleground-republicans-prepare-to-run-with-felon-trump-at-top-of-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Candidates Gear Up to Campaign with Former President Trump Despite Controversies"},"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\">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%2Fbattleground-republicans-prepare-to-run-with-felon-trump-at-top-of-ticket%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=2257290&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>The Republican \u2064Party sees a divide as vulnerable incumbents rally behind former President Trump \u2063despite \u200dhis conviction&#8217;s risks. Trump\u2019s involvement in concealing payments to Stormy Daniels before the\u2062 2016 election raises concerns about Republican control. Amid diverse\u2064 reactions, Democrats plan to tie swing \u200cdistrict Republicans to Trump\u2019s image. The guilty verdict\u2062 casts a shadow\u2063 on the upcoming elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Vulnerable <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Republicans<\/a> are largely falling in line behind former President <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> despite the danger his conviction presents to Republican control of Congress next year.<\/p>\n<p>The Thursday verdict, related to Trump\u2019s efforts to conceal a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rejects-trump-bid-to-shield-financial-records\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid To Shield Financial Records\">hush money payment<\/a> to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 election, could shape the presidential race in unpredictable ways. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3023260\/gop-lawmakers-decry-trump-guilty-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>conviction<\/a> might motivate turnout among Republicans but is seen as a turnoff to voters in the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, vulnerable incumbents appear to be embracing the guilty verdict, hoping Trump\u2019s claim that he is the victim of a political prosecution will resonate in their states and districts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is how we are going to do politics now? Not through spirited debates, but by weaponizing the justice and court system to attack a political rival right before the election?\u201d asked Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY), who is running for reelection in a district President Joe Biden won in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Anthony D\u2019Esposito, another Republican running in a Biden New York district, called the ruling a \u201cmiscarriage of justice\u201d on Thursday, while Rep. Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) said voters aren\u2019t interested in the partisan \u201cgames\u201d he said were behind the prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>His race <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/2969026\/republicans-feel-heat-arizona-as-two-candidates-suffer-ratings-changes-for-races\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>moved to a toss-up<\/a> following the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that a strict 1864 abortion ban is enforceable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is exactly why the American public is losing faith in our judicial system,\u201d Ciscomani said of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-hush-money-verdict-unlikely-to-sway-most-voters-poll\/\" title=\"Poll shows that Trump's hush money verdict is unlikely to influence the majority of voters\">hush money verdict<\/a>. \u201cPeople want a government that protects them, is accountable and is transparent. But that is not what we saw today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even before Trump was found guilty of falsifying business records, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Democrats<\/a> were planning to tie Republicans in swing districts to what they call the former president\u2019s \u201cMAGA extremism.\u201d The strategy is credited with blunting a red wave in the midterm elections last year.<\/p>\n<p>But the conviction has given them fresh ammunition to attack those Republicans, suggesting they are undermining the rule of law with their support for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Republicans have continued to put Donald Trump first and the American people last. Their districts deserve better than their cult-like adherence to a wannabe dictator,\u201d Courtney Rice, the communications director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said in a statement. \u201cEach and every one of them should rescind their endorsement, but won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf House Republicans were serious about justice and upholding the rule of law,\u201d Rice said, \u201cthey would stop throwing their support behind a convicted felon for president. Instead, we\u2019ll hold them accountable at the ballot box in November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not all Republican candidates have voiced support for Trump. In deep-blue Maryland, former Gov. Larry Hogan, the Republican nominee for Senate, urged voters to \u201crespect the verdict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Republicans in some cases have been able to employ the opposite tactic, pressing Sens. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), two vulnerable incumbent Democrats in red states, for not condemning the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Whether the conviction ultimately helps or hurts Trump\u2019s chances of winning back the presidency remains to be seen. The same can be said for the candidacies of Republicans backing the former president.<\/p>\n<p>For weeks, even as the trial unfolded (and, with it, stories associating Trump with the alleged misconduct), the public polling for the presidential race barely moved.<\/p>\n<p>Most voters, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/30\/donald-trump-guilty-hush-money-trial-00160460\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>surveys<\/a>, consider the New York hush money case to be less serious than the former president\u2019s other criminal prosecutions. But the idea of voting for a felon could sway some independents and even Republicans.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a Quinnipiac University <a href=\"https:\/\/poll.qu.edu\/poll-release?releaseid=3898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>poll<\/a> found that even among Trump supporters, 6% said they would be less likely to vote for him if he were convicted.<\/p>\n<p>For the time being, congressional Republicans have been campaigning off the guilty verdict, with their campaign arms reporting record fundraising hauls in the hours afterward. The Trump campaign sent out a statement saying it<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3024111\/republicans-trump-record-fundraising-guilty-verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title> \u201cshattered\u201d fundraising records<\/a> by bringing in $34.8 million \u2014 almost twice as much as any single day in the past.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many at-risk Republicans align with ex-President Trump despite risks his conviction poses to GOP control. Verdict on Thursday, linked to concealing payment to Stormy Daniels pre-2016 election, may impact the presidential race significantly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2930,"featured_media":2257291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-31-May-2024-01-11-PM-5819.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2257290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/MixCollage-31-May-2024-01-11-PM-5819.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257290","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\/2930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2257291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}