Trump Becomes First Former President Guilty of Crimes
The guilty verdict in Donald Trump’s Manhattan criminal trial injects an unpredictable new variable into a presidential race locked in stasis, distinguished primarily by voter frustrations with their choice of two well-known and unpopular major candidates.
After running in largely non-competitive primary races, President Joe Biden and Trump now enter the general election campaign navigating an unprecedented scenario: the leading candidate in the presidential race is a convicted felon.
Such a seismic development almost certainly would have changed the trajectory of the presidential race in the past, and it still might. Yet ...