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A new POLITICO Magazine/Ipsos poll provides some bad news for Trump: Even as he remains the clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination, the cascading indictments are likely to take a toll on his general election prospects. 
 
The survey results suggest Americans are taking the cases seriously — particularly the Justice Department’s 2020 election case — and that most people are skeptical of Trump’s claim to be the victim of a legally baseless witch hunt or an elaborate, multi-jurisdictional effort to “weaponize” law enforcement authorities against him.

Furthermore, public sentiment in certain areas — including how quickly to hold a trial and whether to incarcerate Trump if he’s convicted — is moving against the former president… (source)

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Vivek Ramaswamy isn’t just Trump’s mini-me. He’s way worse

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This should become an interesting states’ rights vs their political parties’ issue. I haven’t researched the possibilities yet, but I wonder if the only meaningful judgement in constitutionality might come from SCOTUS. While Trump hasn’t been convicted, what powers DO a state’s executive branch have over political party behaviors?

Isn’t such power only in the hands of each state’s legislature? And if/when other states take up the same issue, might SCOTUS want to jump in ASAP? This should exacerbate each state’s internal political party standoffs.

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Speaking of Vivek Ramaswamy, his campaign died in one interview by Mehdi Hasan. You rarely see anyone so thoroughly and successfully (though not to his benefit) avoid answering a simple question:

almost as devastating as when Chris Wallace (while on Fox!) destroyed Trump attorney Jay Sekulow:

Luckily for Sekulow, he wasn’t running for office.

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Unseen wrote:

Speaking of Vivek Ramaswamy, his campaign died in one interview by Mehdi Hasan.

Do you believe that enough people trying to listen to that mess of overlapping dialog could actually understand most of the questions and answers? Vivek does that all the time, and I wonder if fast talking while looking more confident than a used car salesman might actually prove to be an effective campaign strategy.

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PopeBeanie wrote:

Do you believe that enough people trying to listen to that mess of overlapping dialog could actually understand most of the questions and answers? Vivek does that all the time, and I wonder if fast talking while looking more confident than a used car salesman might actually prove to be an effective campaign strategy.

All I know is that he’s been largely out of the news since the interview started being shared and reacted to.

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