Democrats are growing weary that the indictment of Donald Trump could help foster a repeat of 2016, when many were happy to have him go up against HillaryClinton instead of other GOP candidates.
Trump won the 2016 presidential election in a shocking upset after many underestimated him by viewing him as the most beatable Republican candidate for the general election, and Democrats seem keen not to repeat that outcome.“Last time people were rooting for Donald Trump, he ended up president of the United States,” Rep. Ro Khanna told Politico. “We’ve seen this story before.”
“When we dealt with Trump the first time around, he was a different quantity. People knew him as an entertainer, and he had this kind of bulletproof image … people saw him as this successful businessman who they’d grown up with or seen on TV for so many years,” Anne Caprara, who was head of Clinton’s 2016 super PAC, Priorities USA, said. “And I just think he’s got a much different image now.”
A recent poll showed that between DeSantis and Trump, the Florida governor had better marks than Trump in every question except how DeSantis would fare in the GOP primary.
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