The federal indictment of Donald Trump has left the GOP — and his rivals for the party’s nomination — with a stark choice: defer to a system of law and order that has been central to the party’s identity or a more radical path of resistance.
The federal indictment of former President Donald Trump has left the Republican Party — and his rivals for the party’s nomination — with a stark choice between deferring to a system of law and order that has been central to the party’s identity for half a century or a more radical path of resistance, to the Democratic Party in power and to the nation’s highest institutions that Trump now derides.
That point was laid bare Sunday by a new CBS News/YouGov poll that found 80% of Americans outside the core Republican voter base saw a national security risk in Trump’s handling of classified nuclear and military documents, while only 38% of likely Republican primary voters discerned such a risk.
Trump’s closest rival for the 2024 nomination, DeSantis, the governor of Florida, captured the same spirit when he mused Friday that he “would have been court-martialed in a New York minute” if he had taken classified documents during his service in the Navy.
On Sunday morning, Trump’s former attorney general, Bill Barr, weighed in on “Fox News Sunday,” saying he was “shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were.” But voters eager to believe the dark tales spun by Trump of a nefarious “deep state,” of “communists” bent on the destruction of America, are receiving encouragement from candidates who are ostensibly Trump’s rivals. For them, the calculation appears to be capturing the former president’s voters if his legal troubles finally end his political career.
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