It’s being called “deja vu all over again.”
Former President and 2024 candidate Donald Trump is receiving hundreds of hours of media coverage surrounding his developing court case with Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg —and some insiders are worried.
“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.”
“What’s frustrating to me is we didn’t learn a [expletive] thing from 2015 and 2016 when it comes to just giving him absolute, roadblock media coverage,” David Kochel, a veteran of six Republican presidential campaigns, told Politico on Monday morning. “I get it, it’s a big story. But this was getting covered like … the opening of the war in Iraq or the O.J. chase. You couldn’t escape it.”
“The first-ever arraignment of a former president on criminal charges is a massive story, no question about it,” Adam Serwer wrote in the left-wing Atlantic magazine, saying the media have “learned nothing” from 2016. “But by itself that doesn’t really explain the minute-by-minute broadcasting of his private plane arriving in New York Monday or the blanket coverage of his speech [at Mar-a-Lago last week after his arriagnment]. That kind of saturation approach suggests the networks could return to a model that simply allowed Trump to monopolize coverage.”
From The Epoch Times:
Some declared Republican candidates have come to Trump’s defense, accusing the DA of operating in a politicized manner. Others have noted that should any candidate go after Trump in the wake of the charges, he will likely face the former president’s wrath.
Recent polls show that Trump, meanwhile, is dominating over Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former Vice President Mike Pence, and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley. In a Reuters survey released on April 7, Trump bested DeSantis by nearly 40 percentage points, while a Monday I&I-TIPP poll shows Trump has a 24-point lead over the governor. DeSantis has not declared himself a 2024 presidential candidate.
On Truth Social, Trump again targeted DeSantis and said that he is “a young man who is not doing well against me in the polls, to put it mildly.” The former president recommended that DeSantis stay out of the 2024 race and remain as governor of Florida.
More over at The Epoch Times:
“This is deja vu… Trump dominates media coverage, making it impossible for his competitors to get any coverage or forward traction.”
Some political strategists said the ramping-up of media coverage around former President Trump could be to his advantage. https://t.co/dty2wMIj4v
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) April 11, 2023
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