by John Solomon
After four indictments and one conviction, the Democrat-led strategy has so far failed to derail Donald Trump’s bid to return to the White House, but it has unleashed an avalanche of financial support as the former president holds the lead in most of the battleground states that will decide the 2024 elections .
Nowhere was Trump’s resilience more evident than his West Coast tours this weekend, during which he raised $12 million Fundraising in Silicon Valley he scored a goal at the home of a Big Tech executive who supported Hillary Clinton millions more at events in blue Southern California and then flew to Las Vegas for a raucous rally in Nevada, where a post-conviction poll showed him leading by five points in the once-Biden-friendly state.
Experts say the narrative and images of a Democratic prosecutor in Manhattan last month securing the conviction of an opposition party leader just six months before Election Day galvanized support for Trump among the GOP while motivating complacent independents and never-Trumpers to choose sides . It set off a painful boomerang for Democrats, who had hoped the May 31 conviction would put an end to the 45th president’s re-election efforts.
“People are motivated,” said former New York Rep. Lee Zeldin Only News. “They woke up the next day wanting to do something about it, realizing they had to fight even harder […] They turned their energy and emotions into activity, into the desire to make changes. If someone goes to the WinRed platform and donate $5, they may be willing to donate $25 more. They may be willing to sign up to volunteer today if you ask.
“There are people who have completely stayed on the sidelines regarding President Trump,” he added. “I know one person just a few weeks before the verdict was announced. I called him and tried to get him to support President Trump. He supported another candidate. He wasn’t ready yet. Immediately after the verdict, he sent $800,000 to President Trump’s joint fundraising committee. I just found out his mother offered him another $800,000. These are two people who were actually on the sidelines before the verdict was passed.”
The data confirms Zeldin’s anecdotes.
Trump campaign officials said the candidate raised more than $50 million in the first 36 hours of the verdict, much of it from first-time donors. In May, Trump and the Republican National Committee reported their best fundraising month ever, raising $141 million. Officials say June could be on track for close to $200 million, giving Trump cash flow for a fall run after months of losing to Biden in the fundraising contest.
The former president agreed with the wave, repeatedly portraying himself as a persecuted political martyr and warning that the Democrats’ strategy was counterproductive. “Right after it was announced, more money was devoted to this campaign than to any other campaign in history, almost $400 million,” Trump boasted last week at the Turning Point Action event.
The polls were accompanied by fundraising: Trump’s support dropped just days after his conviction before returning to pretrial levels. Citizen of Emerson College vote conducted on June 4–5, also after Trump’s conviction, showed that Trump had a one-point advantage over Biden, within the margin of error.
“Trump’s approval rating in our poll remained the same pre- and post-conviction,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling. “Most Democrats say it makes them less likely to support Trump (51 percent), and most Republicans (55 percent) say it makes them more likely to support Trump. Many independents say it has no effect (41 percent), while 38 percent are less likely to vote for Trump and 21 percent more likely.”
A Fox News poll conducted from June 1 to 4 after Trump’s conviction showed that Trump was ahead of him in swing U.S. states by 5 points. Arizona AND Nevadatwo states won by Biden in 2020.
In the same poll, Trump gained 4 points in Florida and tied in Virginia, as well as another post-conviction poll North Carolina Trump leads Biden by 5 points.
In Pennsylvania – one of the states Biden considers his “home state” – an FAU PolCom Lab/Mainstreet Research poll showed Trump leading Biden 47 to 45 percent among likely voters.
While Trump has managed to hold steady in the polls, Democrats are starting to worry about a different active for Biden: voters who abandoned his winning coalition in 2020 out of frustration with his handling of the Israel-Hamas war.
The 46th president lost more than half a million voters to the “non-aligned” voting movement during the spring Democratic primary, leading to 30 delegates from five states and underscoring frustration within his own party over his handling of the Israel war. -Hamas. Many of the escapees were in key battlefields such as Wisconsin and Michigan.
The organizers of this The “Ditch Biden” movement. I vow to persevere through the Democratic nominating convention in Chicago and the fall elections, Hill recently reported. The movement is largely dominated by pro-Palestinian protesters, and its website shows members wearing the black and white “keffiyah,” a headscarf long associated with Palestinian nationalism.
“Our mission is clear: Joe Biden must be overcome,” the group said. “We will not stand idly by. We are mobilized, we are livid, and we want Joe Biden defeated in the general election. It’s time for responsibility.”
Although Trump’s sentencing is scheduled for next month in Manhattan, the other three criminal cases have been slowed by legal issues and prosecutorial errors and are unlikely to end in trials before the election.
Veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen said he thought the Democrats’ violation would have little impact on the race because voters are instead paying attention to politics, with Trump winning the debate so far on the border, economy, crime and national security.
“President Trump will have a huge megaphone as the Republican presidential candidate. And it starts with some benefits. First, people did not previously consider him a saint. I mean, they didn’t think like that before they voted for him in 2016 or 2020,” Rasmussen said, “Just news, no noise” Television show. “And in fact, just over half of voters think he is less ethical than most politicians. So it’s not a big shock.”
“Another thing we’re seeing is that only about half of voters think this is a legitimate process,” Rasmussen added. “The other half think it is politically motivated. To summarize, could this have an impact? The question will be about what we call irregular voters… they will be the ones who want to see if there is real change.”
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the GOP’s 2016 presidential candidate, said Democrats can only strengthen Trump’s standing with voters if Judge Juan Merchan in Manhattan decides to sentence the presumptive GOP nominee to prison next month, just four days before the GOP nominating convention in Milwaukee.
“Let me tell you, it would be, in my opinion, the most outrageous affront to the administration of justice that we have ever seen,” Huckabee said on “Only news, no noise” “But let us remember that Nelson Mandela was thrown into prison by his political enemies and came out stronger than ever, and he spent 27 years there. Martin Luther King Jr. he was thrown into prison by Southern Democrats who didn’t want the Civil Rights Movement to get going. And that only made him stronger. “What I mean is, if the Democrats are stupid enough, they were stupid enough to do this thing in New York and do the others.”
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John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist, author and digital media entrepreneur who serves as CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Just the News.
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