A long New York Times piece on the changes to the Republican presidential primary polling, fundraising, and right wing media landscapes while disgraced former President Trump was charged with a total of 78 felonies includes this gem of a quote from Florida MAGA cultist Mallory Butler:

“Any time you have a pack of dogs chasing you down and you’re willing to stand firm and fight, you’re going to get my vote. DeSantis doesn’t have a pack of dogs hunting him down, and that tells me that somebody’s probably backing him, or he’s in somebody’s pocket at this point. And Trump doesn’t have that,” said the woman who, again we must emphasize, lives in Florida and almost certainly voted for Ron DeSantis at least once, probably twice, and now thinks her state’s governor is “in somebody’s pocket” simply because he doesn’t face any criminal charges (at this point).

Another Trump fan told the Times something almost as stupid: “The indictments are honestly making my support even stronger. They’ve weaponized our entire government against people like us. Every time he gets indicted, it’s driving tens of thousands more of us to the polls,” said Kentuckian Sheri Hardy Candeni, offering no evidence of “tens of thousands” of new Trump voters being driven “to the polls” that haven’t even happened yet because the first primary election isn’t until early next year. Does she mean more of them are answering calls from pollsters or something? What the fuck?

A third, self-described “reluctant” Trump voter said he’s going out of his way to avoid the details of the charges. “The indictments have no impact on my support for Trump,” said Washington stater Sean Roh. “In the past I’d followed them in the news, but now I don’t care to read the details.”