Actually, imagine the reaction if another candidate is targeted for persecution now.
That might sway a few——a few——of the independents and even Dems.
Then CNN, MSNBC, the View and others would start saying “Not just Trump, all the racist, homophobic GOP has to go.”
They’re going to have to go that way soon once DeSantis or Cruz is close to nomination if, God forbid, they eliminate Trump (by law or physically).
The day JFK was murdered Time Magazine had a story that JFK would struggle against Goldwater in a number of states. LBJ and the sympathy vote got LBJ to be re-elected.
By any means necessary.