Firehouse Vice President Evan Berryhill Writes About The Republican Primary In ‘The Western Journal’
May 16, 2023
Evan Berryhill, Vice President, Firehouse Strategies
Prior to 2016, conventional wisdom would tell us that a presidential candidate being indicted during the early stages of the primary would be a virtual political death sentence. But this isn’t pre-2016, and conventional wisdom has never applied to Donald Trump’s political career.
When Trump was indicted by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who ran his DA campaign on going after the former president, the establishment news media was chomping at the bit. Predictions — from both the left and the right — forecasting the former president’s impending demise came flooding in.
But the political impact, at least in the near term, will be negligible.