Opinion | Trump's lawyers had an unrealistically bold strategy. It worked.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled it out of hand in December, but Trump took it all the way to the Supreme Court, which took its sweet time.
46% : There's only one thing that could potentially bring this string of victories for Trump to an end: his losing on Election Day.
38% : For people clinging to the hope that they'd see Trump sentenced before Election Day, Judge Merchan put the final nail in the coffin Friday when he agreed to a request from Trump's lawyers to postpone the sentencing scheduled for Sept. 18.
29% : But that was before the New York judge who oversaw the criminal trial that resulted in 34 felony convictions for Trump announced that sentencing won't happen before Nov. 26.
29% : There will be no criminal accountability for Trump before Election Day.
28% : In December, it looked like Trump would spend this year stuck in courtrooms instead of on the campaign trail.
25% : Willis had wanted to begin the trial against Trump in August, roughly a year after indicting him for attempting to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia.

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