Why the 2024 election is about far more than Trump's legal nightmare

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : "As the justices retired to consider an opinion expected in the summer, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris held a rare joint appearance in North Carolina - a key state they're hoping to peel away from Trump this fall as the president plays defense in a handful of other battlegrounds, including his blue wall in the Midwest.
55% : And in an aside that confirmed that Biden's campaign also sees a chance to irk Trump with mockery, the president told guests at a fundraiser in North Carolina, "I'd be happy to compare physical characteristics ... granted, I don't have his orange hair," according to journalists in the room.
52% : They're seeking to build momentum behind an argument that if Trump and Republicans can consolidate total power in Washington, they will tear down benefits Americans have enjoyed for more than a decade under the Affordable Care Act.
46% : President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, meanwhile, opened a new assault on Trump over health care, while trying to make a play for North Carolina.
44% : Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood, said that abortion was already a decisive issue in the 2024 election.
39% : While Trump has turned his presidential bid into an arm of his legal defense in multiple cases and will spend weeks sitting in courtrooms, Biden has used a post-State of the Union tour of battleground states to roll out a more conventional campaign.
37% : Increasingly, Democratic strategists are warning that a vote for Kennedy is in effect a vote for Trump.
37% : "But Trump renewed his familiar line that he would build something better and cheaper than Obamacare - a refrain he often used in his presidency while doing almost nothing policy-wise to construct an alternative system.
36% : As the ex-president tries to ride a narrative of personal political persecution through his criminal trial quagmire back to the White House, other substantial political forces are gathering that could be equally critical to November's election.
36% : The New York judge in the hush money case imposed a gag order on Trump on Tuesday, limiting what he can say about potential witnesses, among others, in next month's trial.
32% : While the justices seemed inclined to allow continued access to mifepristone on Tuesday, the fact the case reached the top bench shows how a conservative shift in the judicial system engineered under Trump has the capacity to change life in the US.
32% : The Biden campaign was quick to react, putting the blame for lost fertility treatments squarely on Trump and warning that voters had sent the ex-president and "extreme MAGA Republicans a clear message: they know exactly who's to blame for restricting their ability to decide how and when to build their families and they're ready to fight back.
32% : His goal is to take votes from President Biden to help elect Donald Trump, and we can't let it happen," Pennsylvania Democratic Lt. Gov. Austin Davis told CNN.
31% : The massive baggage that Trump will take into the general election may depend on whether he is convicted in the hush money case and whether three other trials - two over his 2020 election interference and one related to his hoarding of classified documents - survive his delaying tactics.
27% : And he's implicitly arguing he's making Americans' lives better while Trump is consumed by his web of criminal and civil legal complications.
26% : But Trump also vented fury after a judge set his criminal trial for April 15 in a case arising from a hush money payment to an adult film star.
22% : The same cliffhanger math applies to a race including Kennedy as it does to a two-way clash between Trump and Biden.
17% : Many Democratic strategists fear that the environmentalist who has promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories could woo some Democratic voters disaffected with Biden's presidency and let Trump back into the White House by default.
11% : "Trump also appears to recognize his vulnerability on health care - at least after he seemed to walk into a Democratic trap while musing last year that he was looking for alternatives to President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
7% : "Donald Trump killed Roe v. Wade," Biden warned Tuesday, accusing his predecessor and the conservative high court majority he built of sowing chaos.

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