Most of the GOP's 2024 field responded to Donald Trump's indictment by supporting him and condemning law enforcement. As stevebenen writes, that's just now starting to change — slowly.
Imagine you’re the campaign manager for a major-party presidential candidate. You believe your boss has a realistic chance of winning, but he or she is struggling to gain traction against the party’s frontrunner and prohibitive favorite. To change the trajectory of the race, and to give your candidate a shot at success, something dramatic would have to happen to shake up the contest.happen: The prohibitive favorite is indicted.
This would be, of course, the opportunity you’ve been waiting for. What luck! Finally, something your party’s candidates could seize to alter the entire primary.I have a hunch you see where I’m going with this. After Donald Trump’s indictment last week, it seemed, at least in theory, to be the sort of development that could shake up the race for the Republicans’ 2024 presidential nomination.
There were competing theories about the Republicans’ motivations. Maybe they were afraid of their own party’s base. Maybe they’re positioning themselves as possible Trump running mates. Maybe they saw political utility in going along with partisan assumptions about “weaponization,” no matter how wrong they are.
Whatever the explanation, most of the GOP field had no interest in going after Trump, despite the seriousness of the evidence. As my MSNBC colleague Zeeshan Aleem on Friday, “most of his competitors for the Republican presidential nomination aren’t just declining to use the charges against him. They’reIt took several days, but some of the Republican contenders are starting to draw similar conclusions. Former Gov. Chris Christie, not surprisingly, is
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