There's No Such Thing as an October Surprise

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

76% : Trump had long made clear that his top priority is loyalty.
50% : That's a narrow band compared with the polling averages of past candidates, but Trump has stayed between 43.3 and 45.8 percent -- a range of just 2.5 percentage points.
45% : Voters have had extensive exposure to Trump and have generally made up their mind about him.
36% : Smith also asserts that he has forensic and other evidence proving that Trump spent the afternoon of the riot doing exactly what many people assumed: sitting at the White House, watching Fox News and scrolling through Twitter, refusing for hours to do anything to pacify the rioters or defend the Capitol.
36% : If this is how Trump treats a close ally, he leaves little doubt about how he'd treat anyone else.
31% : Smith's filing seeks to convince Judge Tanya Chutkan that despite a Supreme Court decision this summer that grants presidents criminal immunity for actions taken in their official capacity, charges against Trump are still valid.
27% : Overall, the filing underscores how serious a threat to rule of law and American democracy Trump was and is.
24% : Jack Smith's new filing shows why January 6 should hurt Trump.
22% : "You're too honest," Trump scoffed, according to Pence.
20% : Nothing else -- not Biden's disastrous debate, not the first assassination attempt on Trump, not the second -- has resulted in a major change in polls.
16% : Horse-race realities aside, Smith's filing shows why January 6 should hurt Trump.
16% : In Smith's account, Trump knew he was lying about having won the 2020 election.
16% : He told FBI Director James Comey so in January 2017, and when Comey was insufficiently deferential, Trump fired him a few months later.
15% : He didn't care that Pence had eagerly debased himself to defend Trump throughout the administration, nor that Pence earnestly did not believe he had the power to throw the election to Trump.
11% : David A. Graham: The cases against Trump: a guideTrump's flippant "So what?" response to the news that Pence had been evacuated wasn't just coldhearted.
11% : Read: Jack Smith isn't backing downPence failed the loyalty test, and he wasn't just dead to Trump; Trump seemingly didn't care whether he was dead.

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