Republican strategists see former President Trump emerging as the political winner from the ongoing string of classified document discoveries.
"In terms of the political perception, this is a gift for Trump 1,000% over," GOP strategist Ford O’Connell, who was a Trump White House and campaign surrogate for the 2020 election, told Axios."This neutralizes the issue, both within the Republican primary and in the event Trump emerges as the nominee for the 2024 general election," said Ken Spain, a GOP consultant and former communications director for National Republican Congressional Committee.
Biden has cooperated with the investigation into his handling of the documents, while Trump sought to block efforts to gain access to the documents as part of ain the investigations, both Biden and Pence invited the review of documents found at locations connection to them. "What the Republicans, and particularly the Republican base, is very concerned about is what they call a double standard," he noted.
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