Next to Trump, Meatball Ron easily leads all other candidates in the primary elections with just Republicans.
Desanctimonious has no chance of beating Trump, but if Trump goes to jail - suddenly he is leading the Republicans.
He s trying to beat Trump at being MAGA, and he has no chance of doing that.
If he changed his political stance now and went more centre and less MAGA - he could get more independent voters than Trump and therefore have a chance of winning the general presidential election.
Trump may forfeit the election as he would be in jail. This could be the opportunity for the Republicans to secure the vote, while getting rid of Trump at the same time.
Like Al Capone, once he was going to jail, everyone threw him under the bus.
Trump has them over the barrel because he is always going to be the primary candidate- even if he has already served 2 terms.