Coming off a “Red Wave” that failed in large part due to disgraced former President Trump’s criminal behavior and coup attempt, a number of GOP consultants tell ABC News they’re resigned to the fat fuck weighing down heavily on their down ballot campaign in 2024 as his all but inevitable indictments for various felonies in three different jurisdictions come to the forefront and distract them from their “messaging” of pretending to fix crime, inflation, and Hunter Biden’s laptop.

“Can Republicans focus in on an agenda and a message that not only works with the base but also can appeal to swing independent voters in the five or six key swing states, or are they going to get dragged down into another chaotic Trump presidential run? And that I think is probably the biggest challenge going forward,” said Republican pollster Robert Blizzard (Cool name, bro).

“Any Republican who’s not prepared to answer a question about the indictment, if it should come, and not prepared to pivot away from questions about Trump and back to the economy, crime and Biden’s shortcomings is going to have a really hard time,” said one Senate GOP campaign consultant.

“If he’s the nominee next year at this time, and the nominee despite three or four criminal indictments hanging over his head, absolutely, that puts the entire map in jeopardy,” said another.

“I think the last time you and I talked was about the insurrection stuff, and I was like, ‘this stuff’s going away,’ and it clearly didn’t,” said yet another Senate Republican campaigned, referring to the midterms. “Maybe for me being a consultant… I’m hoping this kind of stuff goes away more than it actually does.” Note how this guy is actually admitting the House January 6th Select Committee hearings worked and did in fact do damage to the Republicans in 2022.