George Conway: Harris campaign surge has Trump fearing 'incarceration'
Although attorney George Conway is a veteran of conservative politics, the Never Trumper is aggressively supporting Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the United States' 2024 presidential election.
Conway, one of Donald Trump's most scathing critics on the right, discussed the state of the race and the GOP presidential nominee's legal problems during a mid-August interview with the conservative website The Bulwark. And he stressed to fellow Never Trumper Tim Miller, a former GOP strategist who is also rooting for Harris, that Trump has a major incentive for winning the election: staying out of jail.
Trump and his legal team are trying to delay his sentencing date in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s criminal hush money/falsified business records case. And he has unsuccessfully tried to get Justice Juan Merchan removed from the case, claiming political bias.
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Conway told Miller, "The state of play is what it has been for some time. Donald Trump's legal motions are often like his political riffs, where he just plays the same old greatest hits again and again. And they have the same results again and again."
The attorney added that an "ethics body has found" that there is "no basis" for Merchan to "not sit on this case."
"So, he gets to sit on the case," Conway told Miller. "And he's going to get to sit on the sentencing that's coming up on September 18. And the question is: Will Donnie be sentenced to prison? The betting is: I think he will be."
The conservative attorney continued, "Maybe he won't be. Maybe he'll get some kind of a fine or a suspended sentence…. There are a lot of things cutting against him. What's cutting in his favor is that he's a first-time offender officially."
Conway noted that if Merchan sentences Trump to incarceration, he will "immediately file" a "notice of appeal."
"If he does end up serving a sentence," Conway told Miller, "it will be a couple of years from now — assuming he's not elected president, in which case, if he's elected president, then all bets are off. I don't think it is constitutionally possible for a state or the federal government or anybody to incarcerate a sitting president of the United States."
The attorney argued that Harris needs to stay focused on "Trump and why he is unfit for office."
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Watch the full Bulwark video at this link.
