Rottinghaus said that walking the fine line will be especially important for candidates like DeSantis, who has raised his national profile by championing law enforcement officers. “What Nixon tried to do, Biden has now implemented: The Biden Admin has fully weaponized DOJ & FBI to target their political enemies,” he tweeted. On the evening of the raid, Texas Senator Ted Cruz called the search “corrupt & an abuse of power.” “And these attacks on the FBI must stop calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police.” “The Republican Party is the party of law and order,” Pence said at an event in New Hampshire last week. While former Vice President Mike Pence said he was “deeply troubled” to learn that a search warrant was executed at Mar-a-Lago, he said the DOJ could still be held accountable without the rise in attacks against FBI agents. “In a party that was otherwise strongly supporting law enforcement and trying to contrast itself from the Democratic Party, who they portray as a soft on crime, it cuts against that message.” “The Republicans who came out and just attacked the FBI and called for slashing its funding, they may come to regret those comments,” Koger agreed. “Going out on a limb to defend Trump is always politically risky, especially now,” he said. Jeff Swensen/Stringerīrandon Rottinghaus, a political science professor at the University of Houston, told Newsweek that one way GOP presidential hopefuls can position themselves well for 2024 is to keep their comments on the FBI search confined to federal overreach and stop before they defend Trump’s actions. DeSantis saw his best showing yet in a 2024 poll conducted during the public hearings put on by the House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot. A day after the raid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who Trump has dubbed an “old broken down crow,” called for a “thorough and immediate explanation” from the Justice Department (DOJ).Ībove, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at the Unite and Win Rally on August 19 in Pittsburgh. The FBI raid has been widely criticized by Republicans, even among those in the party who have begun to move away from Trump. Another survey conducted just two days after the search showed Trump with his highest level of Republican support since the 2020 election. “While Trump seems to have received a temporary boost and a bump in his daily fundraising haul, the long-term impact on him and the campaigns of other contenders remains to be seen.”Ī poll released last week from The Economist/YouGov found that Trump saw a double-digit increase among GOP voters after the search-with 57 percent saying they had a favorable view of the former president, compared to the 45 percent who said the same before the raid.
“The only thing predictable about politics is that the unexpected will happen,” Republican strategist Jay Townsend told Newsweek. However, experts say that the recent controversy shouldn’t deter other GOP hopefuls from seeking the Republican nomination. Former President Donald Trump has seen a boost in support after the FBI search of his Mar-a-Lago home earlier this month, and he’s even used it to say that he “may just have to” run again in 2024.
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