Post-indictment, Trump is consolidating the GOP vote. But will it last?
Sarah Longwell, anti-Trumper and host of The Focus Group podcast, has conducted seven focus groups this year with two-time Trump voters, many of whom were leaning toward voting for someone else this cycle—particularly, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
But last Friday, the day following news of Donald Trump's indictment, Longwell stumbled upon something different in the focus group when she asked who Trump voters were planning to vote for in the primary.
"I hadn't seen a group in which everybody wanted to vote for Donald Trump in 2024, until this group," Longwell told CNN's Inside Politics on Sunday.
"This is the first group where everybody said Trump," she continued. "They were ready to donate to Trump, they were ready to buy the t-shirts with his mug shot on it, they were mad and animated."