You’ve read it many times before.

Fulton County, Georgia’s indictment of Donald J. Trump is the one for which the former president and 2024 presidential candidate cannot be pardoned, by himself or by whomever is president in 2025.

Can mainstream Republicans move on?:

Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s indictment of Donald J. Trump over an alleged plot to overturn the 2020 election has taken its toll on the former president’s popularity in his party. According to FiveThirtyEight’s averaging of national polls, Trump’s favorability among Republicans was at 52.9% after the New York indictment for paying hush money to the adult film star Stormy Daniels, and actually rose to 53.7% two weeks later. 

But two weeks after the Justice Department’s second indictment, Trump’s favorability among Republican voters has fallen to 49.1%. Still, the GOP might be stuck with him through next year’s primaries, as Trump now has a record 38.7% lead in the polls over his closest presidential primary challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Perhaps that last number has more to do with DeSantis than Trump?

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