Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson argues Donald Trump’s authorized woes are boosting the previous president’s bid for the GOP’s presidential nomination.

“You look back to the true numbers, which is after the last midterm elections. His numbers were down. He was responsible for a lot of the failure … in a number of different states,” Mr. Hutchinson, an anti-Trump Republican, mentioned Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “Since then, his numbers have gone up because he’s played the victim.”

Polls present Mr. Trump maintains a commanding double-digit lead amongst GOP major voters over his possible opponents, together with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

In addition to felony fees in New York stemming from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s investigation into hush-money funds to ladies earlier than the 2016 election to protect extramarital affairs, Mr. Trump faces doable legal fees from probes into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election ends in Georgia and mishandling labeled paperwork after leaving workplace.

The authorized troubles have performed something however damage Mr. Trump’s odds, Mr. Hutchinson mentioned.   

“People believe he’s been picked on because of some prosecutions,” he mentioned. “I joke, in some ways, that his campaign manager is Alvin Bragg of New York City. That indictment caused those numbers to go up because they don’t believe they’re fair.”

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