Early primary voters weigh in on Trump indictment
Some Republican-leaning voters in early-voting presidential nominating states say they are angry about President Donald Trump’s indictment on charges alleging he improperly maintained classified documents and obstructed efforts to return them are making him too damaged to support in his quest for a third GOP nomination. In interviews with voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, the sense of a political double standard is rampant, as they point most notably to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server, despite differences between the two cases.
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Donald Trump’s attacks on the justice system after his indictment on federal charges are the latest step in a now eight-year campaign by the former president and his allies against the traditions and institutions that have helped maintain American democracy.
Some voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina say Donald Trump has become too damaged to be nominated by his party a third time.
For now, no one comes close to Donald Trump in his command of the voters who’ll decide the Republican Party’s presidential nominee next year. But Trump’s path beyond the primary is far more perilous.
