The GOP is Actually Relieved Trump is On Trial
As one Republican lawmaker told me, “Anything to take us off abortion, honestly. We can’t win the messaging on these bans, on no exceptions [for rape, incest, or life of the mother]. We just can’t.”
Put another way, it’s an easier task to blast the Trump trials as political “witch hunts,” than to defend their own policies.
It’s an astonishing dilemma and an unenviable situation for Republicans — having to choose between defending porn star payments by the president or his unpopular policies. And Republicans will have to do both over the course of the next few months.
But it’s not as if they couldn’t see this coming. The guy responsible for putting them here is the guy they continue to back against all odds and logic. Had they refused Trump’s total takeover, they could have had a nominee facing zero criminal indictments. And they could have had a nominee who didn’t push the party into the political wilderness with extremist, regressive, unpopular legislation.
So just when you’re thinking the Trump trials are the worst thing to happen to the GOP’s November chances, remember — compared to their policies, this is actually what they’d prefer to talk about.
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(S.E. Cupp is the host of "S.E. Cupp Unfiltered" on CNN.)
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