Regardless of the outcome, top Biden campaign officials plan to stress to voters that Trump will be on the ballot in the fall and that no potential court proceeding will change that fact. A person familiar with the discussions summed it up this way: “Donald Trump’s legal troubles are not going to keep him out of the White House. The Biden team believes that Trump will be the nominee and that nothing in the legal realm would change that. Throughout the multiweek case in Manhattan, the Biden campaign and even Biden himself have only occasionally commented on Trump’s time in court. The Biden campaign poked fun at the trial in broader strokes, amplifying memes about Trump’s possibly having nodded off in court.