Chuck Todd on Trump’s Legal Woes: ‘How Much Is Too Much Even for His Supporters to Dismiss?’ (Video)
thewrap.com@ChuckTodd on former President Trump’s growing legal troubles as the 2024 election begins to ramp up. #SundayTODAY pic.twitter.com/3R57rFe9J1And yet, his polling numbers for the 2024 Republican primary are trending upward.An Emerson College poll taken April 25 showed Trump beating primary opponent Ron DeSantis (R-FL) by 45 percentage points, according to the poll-tracking site FiveThirtyEight.
A week prior, a YouGov poll had Trump leading by just 22 points. Todd theorized that because Trump has been in some form of legal or political trouble for much of his career, his supporters have been conditioned to be somewhat numb to these new issues. “In many ways, because [Trump] has been fighting lawsuits, really, his entire professional life,” Todd said, “and he’s always tried to talk about them [as] some sort of personal attack or nuisance…in many ways he’s been conditioning, and some might call it gaslighting, his supporters for years. [He] essentially says any legal attack on him is really politically motivated.”There might be more legal trouble on the way for the former president.
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