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Longtime Republican operatives have never seen anything like it. The outpouring of rage and emotion following the guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial has energized the entire Republican Party.
More practically, the verdict has opened the spigot of donations large and small. Money is pouring into the Trump campaign’s coffers to the tune of $53 million in the first 24 hours after the verdict.
The amount was « nearly double the biggest day ever recorded for the Trump campaign » and demonstrated that the guilty verdicts « have awakened the MAGA movement like never before. » One-third of the donors had never given to Trump previously.
“You can’t tell me that it doesn’t drive that low-propensity, unlikely voter into a frenzy and one where they are more inclined to engage in the election,” said Zack Roday, a Virginia-based Republican strategist. “This will drive turnout, and I think it will also drive people who don’t follow politics.”
“That’s not good news for Joe Biden, and it probably is good news for Donald Trump, within that context of addition and subtraction,” he said.
Indeed, the verdict is not all positive for Trump. There have been no serious polls done in the aftermath of the verdict.
