![]() ![]() Super PACs are, according to the Federal Election Commission, “political committees that make only independent expenditures that may solicit and accept unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor organizations and other political committees.”ĭonors might start to consider, with more than a year to go until the election, whether they are willing to pay not only for Trump’s campaign, but also for his legal expenses. ![]() So tight are the group’s finances that it has requested a highly unusual $60 million refund of a donation it made to a Trump Super PAC. Trump is paying these fees in part through the PAC. The attorneys’ fees and court fees derived from the numerous investigations have increased exponentially since January - since April, Trump has been indicted three times, the most recent one on Tuesday, and he has lost a trial in New York. Trump’s PAC, Save America, has only $4 million left, according to The New York Times, out of the $105 million it had at the beginning of 2022. So far this year, Trump has allocated more than $40 million dollars to legal expenses, and around $56 million since last year. But his expenditure on legal defense is becoming a serious problem as his political action committee (PAC, the engine behind a campaign) approaches bankruptcy after paying millions in Trump’s legal fees, as well as those of associates such as his assistant Walt Nauta and his employee Carlos de Oliveira, also indicted in the case of the Mar-a-Lago papers. Immersed in a legal battle without precedent in the history of the United States - he is the first former president to be indicted - Trump cherishes the dream of re-election, if only because each legal setback infuses strength, in addition to donations, to his campaign. They are strongly mobilized and react en masse to every harangue by their leader - or every message “screamed” in capital letters on his Truth Social app. MAGA voters make up 37% of the Republican electoral base, and abstention is rare. Trump’s success comes in large part from supporters of his MAGA ( Make America Great Again) movement, which emerged when he launched his first run for the White House in 2016. In a poll published on Monday, he achieved 54% of voting intention among the likely Republican primary electorate, compared to 17% for DeSantis. Meanwhile, polls show a majority support for Trump among Republicans. ![]() The latest Gallup poll points to this possibility: 45% of Americans say they are Republican or lean towards that party, while 42% are Democrats or prefer this option. Slightly more favorable to Biden, the undecided are especially critical of Trump, whom they accuse of “committing serious federal crimes” (63% of this group) and of “threatening American democracy” (59%).Īlthough Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections, something that no party had achieved since the creation of the modern party system in 1828, doubts about Biden’s age (80) and about his real support outside the big metropolitan areas, which tend to be Democratic strongholds, could tip the scales to the Republican side. ![]() This group of undecided, generally moderate voters (49% of the total), may be the key to solving the question of who will occupy the White House from 2025. The poll showed that 14% of registered voters do not support either of the candidates, and are more likely to abstain or vote for a third candidate. society is confirmed in a single statistic. If they faced each other today, the candidates for re-election in November 2024 would be tied with 43% support each from registered voters, according to the latest poll by Siena College for The New York Times, published on Tuesday before the third indictment had been made public. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden has recovered a little muscle in the voting intention polls, although he still does not fully convince his party’s traditional voting base. LINDSAY DEDARIO (REUTERS)ĭay after day, Donald Trump confirms his unbeatable leadership in the Republican primaries despite having been indicted three times now - and there could be a fourth indictment in the coming weeks - with a 37-point lead over his most direct rival, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Donald Trump this past Saturday at a rally in Erie (Pennsylvania). ![]()
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