Trump aide flags the 'main thing to watch' to see if ex-president’s support will fade

A man who voted to support Donald Trump on Saturday but was stumped about who to vote for if the former president were to be convicted could give us a clue about the 2024 election, Trump's former communications director and assistant said.

CNN interviewed a man named Max, who said the former president's 91 criminal charges didn't give him any pause to vote for him in the GOP primary election in South Carolina, in part because of the voter's own prior run-in with the law. But when asked by a CNN reporter about what he would do if Trump was found guilty on one of those charges, the man froze, saying, "Hold on" and then suggesting it would have a significant impact on his voting decision.

People like Max are who we should be watching to see if Trump's support is deteriorating ahead of the 2024 contest, according to Alyssa Farah Griffin.

Appearing on a panel on the cable news network on Saturday, Farah Griffin said Max's testimonial was "fascinating."

"I mean, we tend to be reductive in how we look at voters until we actually hear from some of them," she said. "This was somebody who could have been frankly a Trump campaign surrogate, he was so enthusiastic about Donald Trump, but he did allude to that if there was a conviction that could change the course for him."

She continued on, saying, "That's gonna be the main thing to watch in this after this race gets locked up is how many of these diehard supporters who loved the Trump years could still be with him if he's in fact a convicted felon."

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