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Nidhi Razdan: Trump's rising popularity amid mounting legal woes
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2/17/2025
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As I sat down to write this week's piece, former US President Donald Trump was indicted
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in a third criminal case in the United States and faces the possibility of being indicted
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in a fourth one. He's made history for many reasons. He's the first American president
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to be impeached twice and the first American president to be facing criminal charges and
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could possibly go to jail for many years if he's actually convicted. But despite that,
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Donald Trump's popularity hasn't suffered. It's actually soared amongst his Republican
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voter base. And that trend, polls show, began back in April when he was first arrested and
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charged in a criminal matter. So as far as his voters are concerned, and his supporters
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are concerned, he's actually genuinely the victim of political vendetta. They feel that
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he's being targeted, that he's been wronged, and they believe his conspiracy theories about
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the last election of Joe Biden in 2020 being a stolen election. So they believe all that
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he says. And this is significant because, according to analysts, Trump has the support
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of about 40 to 45% of Republican voters in the US. And the second reason why his popularity
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therefore has soared is that other Republican candidates who are in the fray, like the Florida
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governor Ron DeSantis, they simply haven't been able to decide what they're going to
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do about Trump. They don't know whether they should fully go all out and attack him and
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therefore alienate that core base that he has. And they don't want to fully support
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him either. So they're kind of neither here nor there. They're not telling people not
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to vote for Trump, but they're also not really able to explain to people why they should
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vote for them instead. As a result of all of this, Trump is now the clear frontrunner
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for the Republican race. But there are still many, you know, strange factors at play here
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because America has never seen a former president or a potential presidential candidate actually
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possibly going to prison. The US Constitution doesn't prevent him from actually contesting
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for president, but it doesn't say what would happen if he was in jail. Can he still be
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the president? These are interesting times in America. You just have to watch this space.
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You just have to watch this space.
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