A few months before the first ballots are cast, Republican primary voters appear ready to assume an arduous task: running a candidate battling multiple indictments in multiple jurisdictions and almost as many civil cases in what looks likely to be a competitive presidential election.Former President Donald Trump has a commanding lead in the polls. He beats his GOP primary opponents by nearly 39 points in the national RealClearPolitics average. The same aggregate shows him up 31 points in New Hampshire. The last two polls in that aggregate have him ahead by 40. He is winning by 30.7 in South Carolina and 26 in Iowa.MCCONNELL HEALTH EPISODES LOOM OVER SENATE RETURN TO WASHINGTONTrump is positioned to win all 169 California delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention under new rules that make the state winner-take-all for a candidate who can win an absolute majority. A Los Angeles Times-University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Governmental Studies poll shows the former president receiving 55% of the vote.Most polling shows that Republicans are not only undeterred by Trump’s legal woes. They are so incensed by them that they are prepared to nominate him for the third time to strike a blow against what they regard as the two-tiered system of justice.The central challenge ahead of the other 2024 Republican presidential candidates is to convince their party’s voters that whatever they think of the legal merits of the cases against...