Never Trumper Andrew McCarthy Weighs In On Russiagate
One of the most consistent features of recent years has been Andrew McCarthy's underestimation of Trump. From The Huffington Post on August 1, 2023 : Conservative pundit and former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy is warning Republicans that nominating Donald Trump could backfire in a big way in 2024. “Trump doesn’t have a prayer of being elected president again,” McCarthy wrote in The National Review in a column posted online before the former president was hit with new indictments connected to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. . . . Despite that, polls show Trump running neck-and-neck with President Joe Biden. McCarthy said Democrats hope those polls lure GOP voters into nominating Trump. But he warned that Trump would face some difficult math next year, estimating that about a quarter of Republican voters won’t support him no matter what. With that sort of solid track record of being wrong, I'm surprised that anyone finds his takes reassuring, especially i...