‘They will bend the knee’: Lincoln project cofounder cautions against dismissing Trump

Rick Wilson, a veteran Republican strategist, suggests the ex-president still holds sway despite multiple crises

Donald Trump, the former US president, is all washed up. Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, is poised to dethrone him. This is the view currently in vogue among many in Washington.

Not so fast, argues Rick Wilson, a veteran Republican strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group that shot to prominence with go-for-the-jugular advertisements before becoming mired in scandals of its own.