Democrats have a history of their hubris coming back to bite to them later on. One classic example is their nuking of the Senate filibuster in order to stop the Republican minority from blocking judicial nominees as Democrats had under George W. Bush.
This tradition of destroying precedents and changing rules for their own short-term gain continues to this day with their persecution of Donald Trump. The radical left is so blinded by their hatred of Trump they simply can't understand the consequences of their actions. Trump now faces the possibility of having his assets seized by the state of New York after being found guilty of civil fraud in a case where there is literally no victim or crime. This is the result of Judge Engoron ordering Trump to pay $464 million by March 25.
On Friday, pollster Frank Luntz appeared as a panelist on CNN and warned Democrats that if New York Attorney General Letitia James seizes Trump's assets, it could significantly boost Trump's chances in the 2024 presidential election.
"I want you to remember this moment," he said. "And don't forget it. If the New York Attorney General starts to take his homes away, starts to seize his assets, it's all going to be on camera. Pundits are going to sit there and scream about this. 'This man cannot be elected.' You're going to create the greatest victimhood of 2024, and you're going to elect Donald Trump."
"If they take his stuff, he's going to say that this is proof that the federal government — and the establishment and the swamp in Washington and all the politicians across the country in the attorneys general and all of this — that this is a conspiracy to deny him the presidency. He's going to go up in the polls just like he went up every single time they indicted him."
Luntz continued:
The indictment—let's not talk about whether it's justified or not—but it will prove the things that he's saying on the campaign trail, and he will go up and it may just elect him president. Do not forget that. And I say this to the Attorney General [Letitia James] right now: If you play politics on this, this is what the secretary of state did in Colorado, and what they did in, I believe in Maine—his numbers went up in both states.
Luntz insisted that he's "almost speechless" at "how pathetic the opposition to Trump has been."
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And Luntz wasn't done blasting the efforts to essentially bankrupt Trump.
"How is Donald Trump beating Joe Biden?" he asked. "He's got 85 indictments that still exist — felonies. How is he beating Joe Biden with the economy getting better, and things cleaning up? Okay, we got it. we still have inflation, you still got immigration. Trump is leading and in the seven swing states, Trump is up by the margin of error in five out of seven, why is that happening? Because his critics are stupid. And they're running a horrible campaign."
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"He’s going to go up in the polls just like he went up every single time they indicted him."
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Trump currently leads by two points in the RealClearPolitics national average, and leads in Nevada, Arizona, Georgia Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Based on his current position in the state polls, he'd easily beat Biden in the Electoral College 312-225.
And Luntz is right, Trump's position is only going to get better if they keep this up.
