The Trump Inevitability Question

The Run-Up

The New York Times

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Outside a Manhattan courtroom, on the day of former President Donald Trump’s arraignment, Astead spoke to two camps of spectators. Supporters cast Mr. Trump as the victim of prosecutorial overreach, while opposing voices hoped this was just the beginning of his legal troubles. With an ever-shifting political landscape as America heads toward the 2024 election, what do Mr. Trump’s mounting legal woes mean for his electoral viability? Is success for the former president, despite it all, an inevitability? Astead speaks with Nate Cohn, The New York Times’s chief political analyst, about what the polls do — and do not — tell us.

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0:00.0	I feel excited to be the random people just talking to a microphone in the subway.
0:06.7	Yeah, I was thinking like, it's also in New York, it's so like, you know, you're like,
0:11.2	is this person famous or is just the conceded jerk and we're definitely going to be the
0:15.3	laughing.
0:16.3	Someone's like, that's the run-up!
0:19.3	Oh my god, that's the run-up!
0:26.7	From the New York Times, I'm a stead herndon, and this, of course, is the run-up.
0:35.4	April 4th was a little surreal.
0:38.6	That morning, instead of sitting down in front of my computer, we're heading into the Times
0:43.0	building.
0:44.0	It's 938.
0:45.0	We are on our way to the Manhattan Courthouse.
0:50.0	I met up with my colleagues Katelyn O'Keefe and Anna Foley in Brooklyn.
0:53.8	Right, we have arrived to Canal Street and we are going to find our way to the Courthouse.
0:58.3	How long has the walk to be done?
1:01.0	And we headed to the Courthouse in Lower Manhattan for the Arrayment of Donald Trump.
1:05.1	Hey guys, so in a block we do see a big mass of people and some tents, I think, so around.
1:12.2	Across the street, there was this part.
1:14.2	So I think in this area is where we have most of the Trump supporters who are here.
1:18.5	And walking through the crowd.
1:20.1	I'm trying to look for someone who feels earnestly here because they actually care, or you know.
1:26.5	Everyone seemed like they were there.
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