Happy Wednesday, dear readers, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. (Julia, Tara and Peter say hello as well.) It’s been a full day since Donald Trump claimed he would be arrested by the Manhattan D.A., but it’s been a lifetime of angst for Republicans hoping to reclaim the White House in 2024.
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Happy Wednesday, dear readers, and welcome back to The Best & The Brightest. (Julia, Tara and Peter say hello as well.) It’s been a full day since Donald Trump claimed he would be arrested by the Manhattan D.A., but it’s been a lifetime of angst for Republicans hoping to reclaim the White House in 2024. What’s about to happen in MAGAland? Stay tuned…
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| Is the Republican Primary Already Over? |
| With the Manhattan district attorney threatening to put Trump on trial, and DeSantis declining to stand in his way, G.O.P. operatives are coalescing around the notion that it’s now the ex-president’s race to lose. |
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| Last August, as F.B.I. agents hauled boxes of classified documents out of Mar-a-Lago, I surveyed a few Republican and MAGA operatives about how this latest legal woe might impact Donald Trump’s political future. For a brief moment, the former president’s opponents entertained the notion that surely this would be the scandal that broke his hold over the Republican Party. Wasn’t Trump actively endangering national security by leaving sensitive nuclear secrets in his desk?
But Trump’s allies were almost giddy about the optics, correctly recognizing the F.B.I. raid as an opportunity to galvanize the base, raise more money, and temporarily paralyze the 2024 field. “Nobody is worried,” one G.O.P. insider told me at the time, relaying the sentiment around Mar-a-Lago. And worry they did not: Days after an underwhelming midterm performance in which Trump’s highest-profile endorsees crashed and burned, and Ron DeSantis cruised to a resounding re-election victory... |
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