{"id":586325,"date":"2023-08-09T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trumps-criminal-trials-prompt-gop-political-doomsday-alarms\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T08:00:00","slug":"trumps-criminal-trials-prompt-gop-political-doomsday-alarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trumps-criminal-trials-prompt-gop-political-doomsday-alarms\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump\u2019s criminal trials prompt GOP political doomsday alarms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9cb77d89c\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f9cb77d89c\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trumps-criminal-trials-prompt-gop-political-doomsday-alarms\/#Trials_vs_primaries\" >Trials vs. primaries<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trumps-criminal-trials-prompt-gop-political-doomsday-alarms\/#Arizona_is_a_worry_for_the_GOP\" >Arizona is a worry for the GOP<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/trumpdonald_080423_ap_memo-trumpattacks.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>GOP strategists and pollsters expect former President Trump\u2019s criminal trials to divide their party, creating a challenge for the Senate and House Republican candidates who will have to walk a fine line on the issue. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s legal troubles and his escalating battle with the Department of Justice will a become litmus test in GOP primaries next year \u2014 just as Trump\u2019s claims that the 2020 election was stolen helped define candidates as MAGA-aligned in 2022, GOP strategists say. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Candidates running in swing states and districts, especially Republicans trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal to independent and college-educated women, will have to keep their distance from Trump\u2019s legal problems, which could become a major liability for the GOP in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> election, they say. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whit Ayres, a prominent Republican pollster, said Trump \u201chas major problems, particularly with college-educated women.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have basically moved away from the Republican Party at this point and become a core part of the Democratic coalition,\u201d he said. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re gone for good. With different candidates and a different appeal, I think many of them could come back to the Republicans. But Trump has driven away a great many college-educated women at this point.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/T7zM9N_S2SDKHQ2PypEf8AQ?subscribe=1\">Sign up for the latest from The Hill here<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the same time, Republicans in competitive primaries need to be careful not to alienate Trump\u2019s core supporters, who make up an estimated 30 to 40 percent of the GOP electorate. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he is the nominee in 2024, he will be zero help. He\u2019ll be a drag on the ticket, he will be a drag on Republicans, especially down-ballot Republicans,\u201d said Brandon Scholz, a Republican strategist in Wisconsin, where Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) is up for reelection. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is where you divide the Republican Party into two camps,\u201d Scholz said. \u201cOne camp says, \u2018Let the president figure out his own legal problems. We run on our own. We\u2019re not here to talk about Donald Trump\u2019s legal problems.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThen there\u2019s the other half who will just say, \u2018It\u2019s a political attack and it\u2019s not deserving and they didn\u2019t do it to Joe Biden,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cI just don\u2019t think the Republican Party is going to have a consistent message regarding Trump, they\u2019re going to be split.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Trials_vs_primaries\"><\/span><strong>Trials vs. primaries<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Polls show Trump dominating the GOP field, leading his nearest rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, by an average of 38 percentage points in recent national polls. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He faces as many as four criminal trials and two civil trials over the next 18 months, which means his courtroom dramas will likely coincide with primary election dates, when Trump will be on the ballot in some states along with candidates battling for Senate and House nominations. \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>For example, in Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, four Senate battleground states where there may be competitive GOP primaries, the presidential and down-ballot primaries are scheduled for the same dates: June 4 in Montana, March 19 in Ohio, April 23 in Pennsylvania and May 14 in West Virginia. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen Trump recently made a joke on the trail, \u2018One more indictment and I got this thing in the bag,\u2019\u201d said Ohio-based Republican strategist Matt Dole, referring to how Trump\u2019s legal battles have rallied Republican voters behind him. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But he warned that the legal fights could have a different impact on independent and moderate voters in the general election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHe may have the primary in the bag but it certainly will have an impact on the general election,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s trial in Manhattan on 34 felony charges related to his payment of hush money to an adult film actress is scheduled to begin on March 25, while his trial in South Florida on 40 criminal charges related to his handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago is scheduled for May. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Special counsel Jack Smith has called for a \u201cspeedy trial\u201d for Trump in Washington, D.C.\u2019s, district court on four Jan. 6-related criminal charges, prompting speculation the Department of Justice wants to wrap up the trial before the Republican presidential convention scheduled for mid-July in Wisconsin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Trump also faces the start of a defamation trial involving the writer E. Jean Carroll on Jan. 15 and a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James accusing Trump and his family business of committing loan and insurance fraud. James\u2019s office announced last week its case is \u201cready for trial.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump faces another criminal trial in Georgia, where Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is preparing to charge him with trying to overturn the results of the state\u2019s 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you get right down to it, this is going to be a s\u2014 show,\u201d Scholz said. \u201cEvery trial with Trump, it\u2019s going to be witnesses on the stand, it\u2019s going to be statements. It\u2019s going to be a story to itself. I don\u2019t know when those trials would end, how soon before November 2024, but for every day they get closer to the election the worse it\u2019s going to be.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Arizona_is_a_worry_for_the_GOP\"><\/span><strong>Arizona is a worry for the GOP<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Some Senate Republican strategists are already writing off their party\u2019s chances of winning the Arizona Senate seat now held by Kyrsten Sinema (I) because former television <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> anchor Kari Lake, a Trump acolyte who embraced his claims of election fraud, is viewed as a front-runner for the GOP nomination. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A looming question ahead of next year\u2019s primaries is whether some candidates will echo Trump\u2019s attacks on the Department of Justice and broader legal system to ingratiate themselves with Trump\u2019s core supporters. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the strategy that Don Bolduc, a former Army brigadier general, employed in 2022 when he won the Senate Republican nomination in New Hampshire by insisting that Trump had won the 2020 presidential election.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Bolduc tried to reverse course before the November general election by claiming he had \u201cdone a lot of research\u201d and came to the \u201cconclusion\u201d the election was not stolen.\u00a0He wound up losing the race by 9 percentage points to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ayres, the GOP strategist and pollster, noted \u201ca great many election-denying candidates won their primaries before getting crushed in the general election.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said the criminal charges against Trump for trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election will likely play into next year\u2019s races the same way that his claims of election fraud did in the midterms. But he warned that Republicans who take that position could find it comes back to hurt them in the general election. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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