The mumbling gets louder….
Does it matter?
Is Ron DeSantis stealing the Trump ‘party’ show in broad daylight with the help of the House Select Committee and ‘The Donald’ HIMSELF?
Donald Trump seems to be more and MORE damgaed goods these days…..
And THAT may not be good news for his adopted party…..
A hurt Donald Trump seens as a’LOSER’ is NOT a Happy man…..
As the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riots lays out Donald Trump’s obsessive efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, Trump allies have responded with the political equivalent of a collective eye roll.
But elsewhere in the party, operatives are taking notice. The former president is being damaged, they say — perhaps not fatally, but notably so.
In interviews, those operatives describe a GOP electorate still enamored with Trump and dismissive of the committee and its findings. But elements of the voters, donors and activists that make the three pillars of the party are exhausted too, they say. And they’re growing less willing to let the baggage of the Trump years complicate the future….
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“Trump is facing an important onslaught of negative facts with these hearings and there is no real defense. He has no friendly members on the committee and there aren’t facts to put in front of the public to make any of this sound less bad,” said Dan Eberhart, a Republican donor.
While Eberhart suspected that the hearings were hardening Trump’s core supporters, he also noted that one of the former president’s more formidable, potential opponents was benefiting too.
“Ron DeSantis,” he said of the Florida governor, “is lying in wait, sharpening his knives.”
In some pockets of DeSantis land, these sentiments are shared. The governor’s advisers do not see the January 6 hearings as a “nail in the coffin” for Trump, but rather another in a line of distractions that are exhausting the sort of top-line Republican money that could be influential to a potential 2024 Trump-DeSantis primary clash….
Former President Donald Trump’s tight grip on the Republican Party is slipping every day amid congressional hearings into the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, said Republican consultant and pollster Frank Luntz….
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