Trump campaign downplays impact of criminal trials on 2024 bid

Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s campaign downplayed the impact criminal cases will have on his White House bid, insisting voters would see the prosecutions as politically motivated.

The campaign is confident that the myriad of legal cases Trump faces will “play out the way we want,” Chris LaCivita, a Trump senior adviser said in a roundtable hosted by Bloomberg News in Des Moines, Iowa, the state that kicks off the 2024 Republican presidential nominating contest on Jan. 15.

LaCivita argued that voters will buy into Trump’s characterization that the legal cases are partisan in nature. The latest of Trump’s legal woes includes efforts by states, including Colorado and Maine, to invoke the 14th Amendment to keep him off the 2024 presidential ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up the Colorado case.

“There’s a large body of voters who believe that the trials and the indictments are in fact part of a process to deny voters the ability to vote for Donald Trump, or at least have…