Analysis: Trump is trapped in the past, and it’s hurting him with GOP voters
, which asked delegates whether they wanted Trump to run and also whom they preferred as their nominee. The number of people who cast votes was minimal, and straw polls are not in the least scientific. But whenever Trump has done well in such measures, he has trumpeted the results. Last weekend, he had nothing to brag about.
More interesting, however, was the question of the delegates’ preference for 2024. On this one, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was the plurality winner, capturing about 38 percent of the votes cast. Trump was second, with about 32 percent. DeSantis has become a national figure in the party and now is being seen as a leading alternative to the former president.
Knudson had drawn criticism from Trump loyalists who back the Gableman review. He said his personal integrity demanded that he accept the truth. “In this case, the painful truth is that President Trump lost the election in 2020, lost the election in Wisconsin in 2020, and the loss was not due to election fraud,” he said.
Trump appears trapped with a message that has diminishing appeal to many Republican voters. He cannot move on without acknowledging that Biden is the legitimate president and that, whatever minor irregularities there were in the election of 2020, they weren’t big enough to have changed the outcome.
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