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mystery-ak:
Why GOP voters are so loyal to Trump
by Caroline Vakil - 04/30/23 6:00 AM ET

Republican primary voters are showing no signs of easing their support for former President Trump as their 2024 GOP presidential candidate.

Trump’s lead in the presumptive field of GOP presidential candidates has widened in most polling, even as he finds himself embroiled in high-profile legal battles and as the party grapples with a worse-than-expected midterm election.

Though the presidential debates and primaries are still months away, pollsters and even some anti-Trump Republicans point to the former president’s recent indictment and his no-holds-barred approach to his presumptive GOP rivals as being among the reasons some in the party are still leaning toward the former president.

“Donald Trump has conditioned … a pretty serious majority of the Republican base to believe that any legal critique of him, any external charge made against him is invalid and a product of the ‘deep state’ or a conspiracy of some kind to take him away from Republican voters,” said Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project.

“So why did you see Trump’s numbers go up after Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI? Why did you see his numbers go up after he was indicted in New York? That’s because that base — it is an inversion of the prior known political behavior, which is to say, people don’t like criminals,” he added. “And yet, when you accuse Donald Trump of being a criminal, even with all the evidence in the world, their response is, ‘No, he’s not. You’re the one who’s doing this.’”

Trump made headlines in late March when he became the first president to face criminal charges. The indictment followed a probe by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) that centers on Trump’s possible involvement in a hush money payment made during his 2016 campaign to a porn star.

Though an indictment would ordinarily be considered politically damning for any presidential candidate, polling suggests it hasn’t harmed Trump — and it might even have helped him.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3978590-why-gop-voters-are-so-loyal-to-trump/

libertybele:
Interesting choice of words; “Donald Trump has conditioned … a pretty serious majority of the Republican base to believe that any legal critique of him, any external charge made against him is invalid and a product of the ‘deep state’ or a conspiracy of some kind to take him away from Republican voters,” said Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project.

It is unfortunate as there is no pathway to victory for Trump; the leftists will see to it.  There is no way that are going to allow him to be re-elected.  Besides, what is the RNC/GOP doing differently to ensure a free and fair election??

bigheadfred:
“And yet, when you accuse Donald Trump of being a criminal, even with all the evidence in the world,

What evidence?  The 'evidence' screams political hit jobs.

Maj. Bill Martin:

--- Quote from: mystery-ak on April 30, 2023, 07:30:30 pm ---
“Donald Trump has conditioned … a pretty serious majority of the Republican base to believe that any legal critique of him, any external charge made against him is invalid and a product of the ‘deep state’ or a conspiracy of some kind to take him away from Republican voters,” said Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project.

“So why did you see Trump’s numbers go up after Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI? Why did you see his numbers go up after he was indicted in New York? That’s because that base — it is an inversion of the prior known political behavior, which is to say, people don’t like criminals,” he added. “And yet, when you accuse Donald Trump of being a criminal, even with all the evidence in the world, their response is, ‘No, he’s not. You’re the one who’s doing this.’”

--- End quote ---

I'm as anti-Trump as anyone here, but you don't have to be a Trump supporter to see that the Dems used the justice system to target him right from the very start.  They've basically been following him 24/7 to see if he is doing anything against the law, and then going after him.  It's the equivalent of the cops trying to catch a particular person for speeding, and then arresting him when he goes 57 in a 55 zone.

And while they claim that this means they are "upholding the law", they lost a whole bunch of Republicans who don't even like Trump in the summer of 2020, when even elected Democrats encouraged riots.  I don't like Trump, but I like legal hit jobs even less.

Right_in_Virginia:
Trump's supporters aren't "conditioned", they are awake --- and have been from the beginning.

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