https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/pollster-indictments-donald-trump/2023/08/28/id/1132321/
A Republican pollster is hailing former President Donald Trump's 2024 general election trajectory — and not only because of the strength of his fiercely loyal base, but also because President Joe Biden is "enormously destructive and eminently beatable."
"Any notion that Republicans ought to turn the page, lest they face another electoral defeat, largely evaporated," Kristen Soltis Anderson wrote Monday in The New York Times. "And the multitude of criminal indictments against Mr. Trump have not shaken the support of Republicans for him, but have instead seemingly galvanized them."
Most Republicans aren't looking to be rescued from Donald Trump," she wrote. "The fact is, they really do like him, and at this point they think he's their best shot.
"Despite losing the 2020 elections and then experiencing a disappointing 2022 midterm, most Republicans seem confident that their candidate — even Donald Trump, especially Donald Trump — would defeat Joe Biden handily in 2024.
"They have watched as Mr. Biden has increasingly stumbled, as gas prices have remained high and as Americans have continued to doubt the value of 'Bidenomics.' Many of them believe the pernicious fantasy pushed by Trump — and indulged by too many Republican leaders who should know better — that the 2020 election was not actually a loss."
The more Biden and anti-Trump media try to spin the narrative to try to "poison" Trump's 2024 election hopes, the more voters refused to turn away from him.
"Republican voters see the same polls that I do, showing Mr. Trump effectively tied against Mr. Biden even though commentators tell them that Mr. Trump is electoral poison," Soltis Anderson continued. "And they remember that many of those same voices told them in 2016 that Mr. Trump would never set foot in the White House. In light of those facts, Republicans' skepticism of claims that Mr. Trump is a surefire loser begins to make more sense."