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Let\u2019s ponder for a moment an imaginary Senate race between Smith and Jones.<\/p>\n

In the heat of the campaign, Smith gets indicted. And it\u2019s not just any indictment, but criminal charges involving funneling money to a woman who has sex with strangers.<\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t Jones give a speech lamenting that his opponent lacks the moral character to be a senator? Wouldn\u2019t he say you deserve a senator who\u2019s not facing jail time?<\/p>\n

And wouldn\u2019t Smith, after a tearful denial with his wife at his side, announce that he\u2019s dropping out of the race to fight the charges? Especially if the woman in question said in a TV interview that she was getting death threats?<\/p>\n

CNN AND MSNBC \u2018NEED TRUMP\u2019 FOR RATINGS: CLAY TRAVIS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t a close call: Smith\u2019s campaign would be toast.<\/p>\n

But Donald Trump doesn\u2019t seem bound<\/a> by the usual rules of political gravity.<\/p>\n

Not only is he staying in the presidential race, but among Republicans at least,\u00a0he\u2019s been surging in the polls. He garnered 54% of the vote in the latest Fox poll, which was completed before a Manhattan grand jury issued a sealed indictment ahead of today\u2019s arraignment.<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s GOP rivals are not acting like Jones; they are rallying behind him.<\/p>\n

Think about the strangeness of the situation. Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo and the others<\/a> would all love to knock the former president out of the race. Yet they\u2019re denouncing the indictment in the Stormy Daniels case.<\/p>\n

DeSantis, who\u2019s been dropping in the polls while barely engaging Trump, even made the grandstanding move of vowing to block Trump\u2019s extradition from Florida if necessary. (It\u2019s not; Trump flew to New York yesterday and will voluntarily surrender.)<\/p>\n

Pence, who has criticized Trump<\/a> for endangering his life during the Capitol riot, called the probe by D.A. Alvin Bragg “outrageous.” <\/p>\n

Only former Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson, who jumped into the race Sunday as a long shot, called for Trump to bow out of the race. <\/p>\n

CHRISTIE PLANS A SLUGFEST AGAINST TRUMP \u2013 BUT CAN THAT WORK?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Now it\u2019s perfectly possible they all believe Bragg\u2019s hush-money charges are a prosecutorial abuse of power, even before we learn today what else is in the indictment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s get real. They don\u2019t want to whack Trump over the indictment because they don\u2019t want to alienate his voters.<\/a> They\u2019ve all concluded that they can\u2019t win the nomination, let alone a general election, if MAGA supporters think they\u2019ve engaged in unnecessary roughness toward their man. Much easier to beat up on Bragg \u2013 though none have gone so far as to use such Trumpian language as an “animal” or “degenerate psychopath.”<\/p>\n

So the other contenders and would-be contenders are in a box, unable to criticize Trump even as he faces the prospect of a criminal trial. Perhaps another indictment, related to vote-tampering or classified documents or Jan. 6, would change that equation, or perhaps not.<\/p>\n

Even likely candidate Chris Christie, whose whole rationale is that he\u2019s willing to go toe to toe with his former ally, told me: “I don\u2019t know what Bragg is thinking, to bring a seven-year-old hush money case in a borough that\u2019s overrun with crime.”<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s dominance of the news right now<\/a> \u2013 yes, even as a defendant \u2013 may be his biggest advantage. It\u2019s very hard for his rivals to get any media oxygen, except when they\u2019re asked to weigh in on the Trump case. Hutchinson admitted it\u2019s hard to break through in an MSNBC interview yesterday that was largely about Trump.<\/p>\n

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Even the incumbent president, sticking to a no-comment stance, is being totally overshadowed as he flies around the country touting his accomplishments.<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The cable networks yesterday kept their cameras trained on Trump\u2019s plane, Trump Tower and police in lower Manhattan, turning his travel into a minute-by-minute melodrama. The former president loves to be on center stage, except for the inconvenient face that he\u2019s going to be tried in his hometown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/tongue-tied-trump-rivals-cant-trash-their-indicted-tormentor <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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