Talking about Hillary’s illegal server was election interference. Discussing Hunter Biden’s Laptop was also election interference. Everything being done to Trump, however, is not – according to political elites, but a majority of voters disagree. Recent polling suggests they see it for what it is.
If ever there were a definition of election interference, understanding that the definition of anything is a moving target on the Left, it would be frivolous politically driven litigation during an election season.
And so it is.
Among all voters, 60% agreed that the unprecedented legal charges against Trump were politically driven by the Democratic Party, while 31% disagreed.
What’s surprising isn’t that majorities of Republicans (81% “agree,” 13% “disagree”) and independents (53% “agree,” 35% “disagree”) see eye-to-eye, but that a plurality of Democrats (49% “agree,” 44% “disagree”) also believe the prosecutions are politically motivated.
Even Democrat voters appear nearly in the majority on the matter, but the ominous undertones don’t stop there. 76% of Republicans and 63% of Independents polled said they would still vote for Trump (in the Primary) if he were convicted of something. The folks at AFP-HQ must be scratching their wooden heads over that one.
Did we send all those glossy mailers for naught? I think perhaps you did, but as I’ve noted in the past, you can do with your money what you like. Pick a candidate, an issue, and be whoever you are in defense of that. But I think you backed the wrong horse. Trump won in 2016 because he was an outsider—a disruptor. Eight years later, despite being President for four of them, Donald Trump is still the outside/disruptor candidate, at least in the eyes of most Republicans, and that’s whose Primary he needs to win.
And at a time when more Americans, perhaps than ever, see the political establishment as a threat to their privacy, lives, and livelihoods.
It doesn’t make AFP or anyone who claims Trump can’t win the General wrong (given the lack of attention to election integrity, what Republican can). Still, they’ve been unable to prove that to Republican primary voters, and the NH Primary is in six weeks, the Iowa Caucus is in five weeks, and the wind is blowing favorably in Trump’s direction.
