Some political strategists said that the recent ramping-up of media coverage around former President Donald Trump during his arrest last week could be used to his advantage.
“This is deja vu all over again,” Terry Sullivan, who ran Marco Rubio’s 2016 campaign, told Politico. “Trump dominates media coverage, making it impossible for his competitors to get any coverage or forward traction.”
Last week, Trump was charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection to payments he made to Stormy Daniels and former model Karen McDougal during the 2016 campaign. Trump has framed the Manhattan District Attorney’s office’s charges against him as politically motivated and made it the central theme of his 2024 presidential campaign….