Analysis | Trump’s trial date conjures GOP’s nightmare scenario

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Analysis: Trump’s trial schedule is okay for Trump. It’s much worse for the GOP.

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Friday set Trump’s Florida classified documents case to. Cannon wound up more or less splitting the difference between the government’s request to begin in December and Trump’s lawyers’ preference to begin after the 2024 election.

, with potential Jan. 6-related indictments looming federally and in Georgia — won’t fully play out until the end of the primary season.Nomination contests are often effectively wrapped up by March or April at the latest, with the final contests held in June but generally not consequential to the outcome. Republican National Committee rules effectively require every state to hold its contest

As for the GOP itself, it’s far less welcome news. Indeed, it raises the prospect of what’s more or less a nightmare scenario.The date could, again, be delayed. It’s not inconceivable that those delays could still kick it till after the election. But a trial date at the end of the primary schedule means the case could well be decided between when GOP voters have decided on their nominee and when general-election voters will decide the president.

 

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