A week in which eight presidential candidates gathered onstage in Milwaukee for the first Republican primary debate of the 2024 cycle, while former President Donald Trump released an interview with Tucker Carlson and then later surrendered to a Fulton County, Georgia jail would have perhaps been the beginning of the end of any other presidential candidate.
But Trump is unique. He has often defied the odds of any political conventions. This week was no different.
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The former president has led all other GOP rivals in the primary race. Yet neither the unprecedented mugshot of Trump nor his decision to skip the debate will blunt his lead, Republican strategists and political experts told the Washington Examiner.
“I don’t think it’s changed anything as much as it’s kind of just reinforced kind of the inevitable, that…