Nineteen said it would endear them more to him. She told Morning Edition that only two of the 50 voters she's talked to over several months said another indictment would make them deviate from Trump. But she hosts focus groups of Republican voters and is clear-eyed about Trump's hold on the party. "There's this phenomenon that happens every time Trump is impeached or indicted, and I call it the 'rally-round-Trump effect,' where voters sort of share his grievance," GOP pollster Sarah Longwell told NPR's Morning Edition on Monday. That electability message hasn't filtered down to the rest of the party though. Swing voters view Trump as toxic, and Republican strategists and pollsters say he's a main reason why the party has underperformed in the last three election cycles. But the opposite is true for the rest of the country, including the group of voters who largely decide elections - independents who only lean toward one party or the other. Republicans, whose main source of information comes from conservative media, are saying they believe Trump. There is a strange political divergence taking place that's made possible by American information echo chambers. Trump, the people they have voted for to represent them in Congress and right-wing media have conditioned them to believe all of these investigations are targeted, political and meritless - feeding Trump's grievance narrative. "If this indictment is true, President Trump was incredibly reckless with our national security," Haley said (while also being critical of the DOJ).īut if candidates running against him and leaders on Capitol Hill are unwilling to forcefully and en masse speak out against Trump, why would anyone expect voters to suddenly change their tune?
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