Americans are more focused on what happens under Biden: Republican Party Chair Ronna McDaniel suggests E. Jean Carroll verdict will NOT hurt Trump’s 2024 chances as investigations have been underway for six years
- The top Republican said Americans are more concerned about the current migration crisis and the economy
- She said Americans “want to move on” from the many lawsuits against Trump
- It comes after a jury in New York ruled against the former president
Donald Trump’s sexual assault conviction won’t hurt his 2024 election prospects, Republican top Ronna McDaniel has claimed.
The chairman of the GOP National Committee told Fox News that American voters were tired of hearing about the real estate tycoon’s legal woes.
“People want closure, they want to move on, and they want to talk about what’s going on in their lives,” McDaniel said.
‘THowever, the American people will focus on what’s happening on our southern border, what’s happening with inflation,” she told Fox News.
E. Jean Carroll earlier left the federal courthouse in New York after a jury awarded her $5 million for Trump sexually assaulting and defaming her
Her comments came as a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of sexually assaulting advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996.
They awarded her $5 million in a verdict that could haunt the former president as he campaigns to regain the White House.
The 76-year-old lashed out with a statement on his social media site, again claiming he doesn’t know Carroll.
He called the verdict “a disgrace” and “a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time.”
The outcome of the trial was confirmation for Carroll, one of more than a dozen women who accused Trump of sexual assault or harassment.
She went public in 2019 with her claim that the Republican raped her in the dressing room of an upscale Manhattan department store.
But the jury stopped short of finding Trump guilty of rape. His campaign team said they already plan to appeal.
President from 2017 to 2021, Trump leads polls for the Republican presidential nomination.
He has shown an uncanny ability to weather controversies that could sink other politicians.
In America’s polarized political climate, the civil ruling seems unlikely to have an impact on key Trump supporters, who view his legal woes as part of a concerted effort by opponents to undermine him.
“The people who are anti-Trump will stay that way, the key pro-Trump voters won’t change, and the ambivalent people I don’t think will be affected by this stuff,” he said. Charlie Gerow, a Republican strategist in Pennsylvania.
Any negative impact is likely small and limited to suburban women and moderate Republicans, he said.