Now what is the dems next plan? We all know how they love to doubledown on things that have obviously failed or in this case possibly hilariously backfired.
Are they going to try to get him thrown into jail before he can be nominated or after? I can't see them walking away from this now that they're in this this far.
Are they going to come up with some other issue to prosecute him over and fast track it?
Well, IMO, it's too late for them to say "oops" and toss it all into the background. I think all they can do is double down in hopes of a hail mary, but I'm not sure what that would be. I think at this point Trump is almost hoping for prison for the continued positive optics for him.
These knuckleheads spent way too much time polling their bubble. They expected Trump's base and all of us small government extremists to get riled up, but I think they never expected that independents and democrats would side with Trump because of the trial and verdict. Or, rather than side with Trump, side against the banana republic. A bunch of Trump haters are going to vote for Trump now. A bunch more are definitely not voting for Biden.
I think one thing the Republican machine should do is move forward with the plan to move the convention up and nominate Trump on July 4th.