Trump's 'cover-up' of classified docs will eventually 'seep in with voters': strategist

As the 2024 election season continues, swing voters will start to notice that Donald Trump is so wrapped up in legal cases that it's preventing him from addressing issues that people want to eventually see formulated into policy. Voters will eventually also figure out that the details surrounding his handling of classified information are much more criminal than they realize.

That's according to political strategist and publisher of The Bulwark, Sarah Longwell, during an appearance on CNN.

"The thing to understand about the voters is that there's a large gap between what Republican primary voters want and what general election swing voters will tolerate or are interested in," Longwell said, adding that "Trump living in a courtroom is not attractive to general election swing voters."

Voters want Trump talking about "immigration, and the economy," Longwell said.

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"The visuals of him just sitting in courtroom after courtroom are not going to work well for him," she continued. "The other thing about the voters on the legal stuff is that so far, it is like white noise to the voters. Trump has this magical ability, when he does something wrong he goes all in, right? So there's 91 indictments and voters can't tell them apart."

Longwell went on to say that as Trump's criminal cases get underway and the whole country tunes in and starts paying attention to each individual case, "I think people are going to start having more opinions about each individual case."

"And this one in particular, the documents case ... see right now, people are sort of like, 'Well, Pence mishandled documents, Biden mishandled documents -- but this time it will allow people to understand, 'Yeah, but Trump was told to give them back and refused. Trump engaged in a cover-up to keep them from going back ... That's the kind of stuff that will start to seep in with voters during the general election."

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