How Will the G.O.P. Field Respond to Donald Trump’s Indictment?

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How Will the G.O.P. Field Respond to Donald Trump’s Indictment?
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“How do you campaign against a political rival for whom there is no conceivable precedent?” eosnos considers the indictment of Donald Trump and its impact on his Presidential candidacy.

How do you campaign against a political rival for whom there is no conceivable precedent? When the Department of Justice indicted Donald Trump, last week, on counts arising from his handling of classified documents, he became not only the first former President in American history to face federal charges but also the most confounding front-runner ever in a Presidential primary.

In Chris Christie’s 2021 book, “Republican Rescue,” the former governor of New Jersey mapped out a high-toned way for Republicans to escape Trump’s dominance and regain the White House. “The infighting has to end. So does the wallowing in the past,” he wrote. “We need to be the party that embraces the truth even when it’s painful.” It was an incongruous message from Christie.

Trump’s former Vice-President, Mike Pence, is, like Christie, hoping that a bout of late-onset honesty can fortify a vaporous level of popularity. Most Republican candidates have avoided talking about the violence of January 6th, but Pence, in his campaign-launch speech last week, outside Des Moines, said that Americans “deserve to know” that Trump “demanded I choose between him and our Constitution.

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