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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Donald Trump's Pre-Super Tuesday Court Date

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

A federal judge set March 4, 2024, as the date for Donald Trump's federal trial for election interference, one day before voters go to the polls on Super Tuesday. How much time will the GOP frontrunner be spending in court and not on the campaign trail? Plus, the polls since last week's GOP presidential debate show gains for some of Trump's competitors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1

The federal judge handling the federal indictment against former president Donald Trump

0:35.5

on conspiracy charges to overturn the 2020 elections.

0:39.7

That's a trial date of March 4, 2024.

0:43.3

That just happens to be the day before super-toothed-day primaries when 16 states and territories

0:49.3

go to the polls to vote over who to nominate for the Republican presidential nomination.

0:56.0

What does that date tell us about how this court case will affect the nominating process?

1:02.3

And in the wake of the GOP presidential debate, the Conventional Wisdom is a Donald Trump

1:07.7

wanted, even though he didn't participate.

1:10.2

That's what the Trump campaign and the Beltway press course says.

1:12.9

But a new poll shows a bump for Rhonda Santos and Nikki Haley, and that a client of a few

1:17.5

points for Donald Trump will parse the results of the polling.

1:21.0

Welcome, my poll, as you go in this Labor Day approaches.

1:23.7

We want to talk about where the presidential nominating fight stands in both political

1:28.1

parties as we get into the fall.

1:29.9

I'm Paul Gigo with the Wall Street Journal editorial page here with Kim Strassel and Kyle

1:34.9

Peterson.

1:35.9

And we start with the news, which is that Judge Tanya Chutkin sets a date of March 4 for

1:40.7

the start of Donald Trump's trial in the federal conspiracy case.

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