‘Not Dead Yet’: Why Matt Gaetz Could Survive the Lurid Ethics Report

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : ”Bannon’s bet is that the no-apologies-no-fucks-given approach that Trump has perfected can be adopted by his acolytes, even if it hasn’t worked for others (see: Lake, Kari).
40% : “The political culture in this country has become much more secular, but the press still tries and treat it with a sanctity and purity that our primary voters no longer seem to,” said Ryan Tyson, adviser to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and a polling coordinator for billionaire Elon Musk’s political committee that backed Trump.
37% : For him to win—and many observers understandably have doubts about whether he could—would require an embrace of the playbook perfected by Trump, who survived sex scandals, indictments, a conviction, and even an assassination attempt or two to recapture the presidency.
36% : But, the adviser noted: “Could Donald Trump endorse Matt Gaetz?
34% : But when she gave a deposition in a separate civil lawsuit, the woman denied she was “escorting” or doing “sex work” in 2017, and she also said she didn’t think she was “trafficked”—statements that help explain why federal prosecutors didn’t charge Gaetz with sex-trafficking.
23% : And there’s a good chance Trump would endorse Gaetz, whom he nominated to be the next attorney general before his hasty withdrawal, should Gaetz choose to jump into either race.

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