Trump Uses Four Indictments as His Foremost 2024 Campaign Tool
- His legal cases are tied closely to his campaign fundraising
- Trump was charged Monday over his work to overturn election
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Donald Trump is turning his mounting legal woes into a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, betting that the polling boost from his recent indictments will translate into votes next year.
The former president was hit with his fourth round of criminal charges on Monday, this time for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia. Yet, where presidential candidates once dropped out for comparatively minor infractions such as plagiarism, Trump has seized on the charges to strengthen his pitch to GOP loyalists, who share his sense of grievance and embraces his unsupported claims that the prosecutions are politically motivated.