Few Republicans think Trump’s base is going anywhere.
The indictment unsealed Friday could hardly be more serious for Donald Trump, laying out accusations that he took documents related to U.S. and foreign countries’ defense and weapon capabilities and carelessly stored them at his estate.
Between the indictment’s announcement on Thursday and the unsealing of it less than 24 hours later, Trump’s chief rival, Ron DeSantis, and other candidates had already raced to defend the former president from what the Florida governor called the “weaponization of federal law enforcement.” Then, after calling on Friday for the charges to be unsealed, Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, clammed up as soon as they were, walking away from reporters who asked about it in New Hampshire.
“The whole of the conservative movement is defending Trump against this attack from Biden, so I think it’s playing the same way all these politicized probes have played before,” said a Republican operative working in support of Trump. “For the other campaigns, their only hope is fatigue. There are many reasons for people to have fatigue by now — twice impeached, investigated — I don’t see signs of fatigue today so I think fatigue is wishful thinking.
“We’re gonna continue to see this rally around the flag effect,” Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist and co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, said after the indictment was unsealed. Complicating matters even more: The money Trump has been paying for his legal defense has come from his Save America PAC, with millions of dollars having been spent already — a further drain on his campaign coffers.
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