In recent months, the āred waveā of the upcoming midterm elections seemed to be losing steam.
Gas prices had begun to drop from their peaks, job numbers were beginning to bounce back and inflation is now at ā0 percentā according to President Joe Biden. These and other factors, such as mainstream media support, seemed to be keeping the political pendulum on the blue side.
In recent weeks, liberal media mainstays such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and CNN have all been reporting that the 2022 midterms werenāt necessarily a lost cause for Democrats.
Then, last Monday, came the FBIās raid at Mar-a-Lago ā the Palm Beach County, Florida, club where former President Donald Trump has a home.
In a poll conducted by The Trafalgar Group over the next two days, roughly 1,000 likely voters were asked, āDoes the FBI raid on President Trump increase your motivation to vote in the 2022 election?ā
Trafalgar reported that 83.2 percent of Republicans and 55.2 percent of Democrats said yes. In other words, of those surveyed, 30 percent more Republicans than Democrats are now more likely to vote in Novemberās midterms.
The conservative group Convention of States Action partnered with The Trafalgar Group on the poll, which had a margin of error of 2.9 percent and a confidence level of 95 percent.
In an interview with The Western Journal, Mark Meckler, president of the Convention of States Action, disputed the idea that the āred waveā predicted for the midterms had been losing strength, but said the Mar-a-Lago raid had undoubtedly amped up the Republican vote.
āThis FBI thing is off the charts,ā Meckler said. āI can just tell you that from dealing with grassroots all over the country, people are freaking out. And by that I mean, theyāre going to vote, theyāre going to drag everybody they know to the Polls.
āAnd a lot of people who werenāt that enthused donāt like the police-state stuff and theyāre going to come out and vote, too.ā
According to the same poll nearly half, 47.9 percent, of respondents said they believed it was Trumpās political enemies behind the raid, not the āimpartial justice system.ā
At a Thursday news conference, Attorney General Merrick Garland said he approved the raid personally. But Garland is a Biden appointee and acts in the presidentās name. That makes the raid Bidenās responsibility and, in strictly political terms, itās looking like a huge mistake.
If Republican enthusiasm was waning, that enthusiasm was given a shot of adrenaline by the FBIās action.
Meckler was especially surprised by how Hispanics responded to the poll. According to the poll, 80 percent of Hispanic respondents reported being more likely to vote in 2022 and 69.9 percent of Hispanics believed āTrumpās political enemiesā were behind the FBI raid.
āNow, Iām just theorizing here, but youāve got a lot of Hispanic people in this country that came from one form or another of totalitarian regime. Obviously, theyāve got a large Cuban population and people from Venezuela. Mexico is a corrupt country. A lot of countries in South and Central America have endemic corruption,ā Meckler said.
āAnd when they see an event like this, itās very much like what happens in those countries, where you stay president as long as you can because you know when youāre not anymore youāre likely to get arrested and thrown in jail.ā
Because of this history, Meckler believes Hispanics may be more likely turned off by parties appearing to act in ābanana republicā-style behavior.
This increase in enthusiasm isnāt just good news for Republicans, but for former President Trump as well.
According to a Twitter post from Eric TrumpĀ following the Mar-a-Lago raid, āDonaldJTrump.com is shattering all fundraising records and Iām told has raised more money in the past 24 hours than ever before in recent history! The American people are pissed!ā
Democrats may have been gaining some ground on Republicans, but thanks to the Mar-a-Lago raid, momentum seems to have, yet again, shifted strongly against them.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.