A House Republican said Donald Trump's criminal scandals give him 'credibility' with the party's voters. As stevebenen asks, if that's true, what does that say about the state of the contemporary GOP?
With this in mind, on CNN’s “State of the Union” yesterday, host Dana Bash asked Rep. Ken Buck a good question: “Would Republicans be better off with a candidate who is not facing multiple criminal investigations?” The Colorado Republican“You know, it’s interesting. I think that the multiple investigations and civil lawsuits that have been brought almost give this presidential candidate and former president credibility.
When Trump was indicted in late March, there considerable speculation about the possible political and electoral impacts. Would the GOP finally take this opportunity to cut the former president loose, or would the party rally behind him, indifferent to culpability? I didn’t publish any guesses, since the truth would soon come into focus.in the race for the Republican nomination, it’s clear that Trump enjoyed a steady advantage over Florida Gov.
, but it hardly seems like a coincidence that Trump’s advantage grew dramatically as his legal standing deteriorated. Or put another way, Buck might well have been correct when he said “the multiple investigations and civil lawsuits that have been brought almost give this presidential candidate and former president credibility.”
Of course, a related question soon follows: What does it say about the contemporary Republican Party that a scandal-plagued, twice-impeached, defeated former president looks
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