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Win. at least a significant number of republicans, led by the popular governor, believe his claims are totally bunk. in the short-term, that s not going to stop donald trump from running the playbook we have seen after the last couple of indictments. you will see posts on truth social and a lot of emails and texts to his supporters urging them to donate money. we saw it from marjorie taylor greene, one of donald trump s biggest surrogates here, saying now is the time to back him up, basically, with cash. running a presidential campaign amid four criminal cases with other people who you are helping pay for it is very expensive. all the money that donald trump has been raising around the indictments it s been millions of dollars they are burning through it at a rapid clip. it s only going to accelerate as the cases accelerate. the fund-raising effort between now and when he shows up in georgia to be arraigned is probably priority number one in trump world. have we seen the money is ....
Force him to spend campaign money on campaign stuff when he can spend it on legal issues instead. laura, i want to read to you something about the detail in this 97 pages. for instance, in the indictment it says, members of this enterprise, which she has labeled a criminal enterprise as part of the racketeering charges against all of them, members of the enterprise, including several of the defendants, corruptly solicited high ranking united states department of justice officials to make false statements to government officials in fulton county, georgia, including the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives and the president pro tem of the senate. donald trump stated to the acting united states attorney general, just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and republican congressmen. this implicates a lot of people. it does. it s important, i think, and the reason it keeps coming up in this indictment and the other one is it goes to his state of ....
launch into a gop 2.0, one that focuses on policies that matter, not lies, not tweets, policies that meet america at the kitchen table. that s what this is all about. let s have a discussion about the facts. if we have a discussion about the facts, i like the outcome. do you see it that way, congressman? do you think that will happen? i think ultimately what we as republicans need to do if we re going to win the white house in november of 2024 is to talk about the issues that americans care about and try to get away from the trump indictments and the scandalous nature of the accusations surrounding this president. we need to talk about the border. we need to talk about inflation. we need to talk about crime in the streets. those are issues that republicans are strong on and need to run on. this is a really difficult distraction to try to win the white house, and especially when ....
In addition to what it means in terms of being on the campaign trail for the other folks who are running, what about him logistically? now that we are at four, how does he pull off a presidential campaign as a defendant in multiple trials? do we have any idea what that s going to look like? no. there s no road map for this. there s no history to point back to and say, so and so did it this way. he will have four criminal trials coming up. he has a couple other two or three other civil trials coming up, which are important to him. i think even if some of these get pushed off, the number of motions hearings and discovery issues and pretrial skirmishes will be time consuming, certainly for his team, and probably also at some point for him. you don t have any way to get ....
Any change from campaigns past? any change in scheduling, garrett? reporter: look, it s hard to pivot specifically to the money issues. number one, he is so far ahead in the republican primary that spending a million dollars on a rally isn t a very good investment. there s no need for it right now. if you can save a million dollars a week by not doing gigantic rallies and appearing for 90 minutes at the state fair instead or showing up to be arraigned and getting coverage, basically for free in terms of how your campaign looks at it, that s a better return on investment than spending big money on the campaign trail. where this starts to matter more is when we get into the general election, if donald trump is the nominee. as long as he has a 40-point lead nationally and a 20-point lead in any of the battleground early states in a republican primary, nobody s argument about electability will force him to change his hand. no campaign pressure is going to ....