When Donald Trump was indicted in Manhattan in March with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, his supporters rallied around him.
Buoyed by the backing of former and current elected Republicans — including some of those challenging him for the party’s presidential nomination in 2024 — Trump’s standing in national opinion polls surged after he pleaded not guilty to the charges in a New York state court.
Now Trump faces a much bigger test of his political strength in an unprecedented second indictment, this time on federal criminal charges relating to his handling of classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.