First ….
Yesterday Donald Trump just might have given a hint that he IS bull shitting about running for President again….
I have NO idea WTF he would want to put himself thru the wringer again with the TON of legal and money issues he has brewing….
So?
Second….
Several 2024 GOP Presidential Nominee wannabe’s are heading to Iowa to have the first state’s voters get to know them early….
Third….
This is typical Trump….
Making sure EVERYONE see’s him as the ‘Boss’ and it plays to his ego….He’ll surely figure out a way to make money off all of this…
Running FOR President in America?
Never ends….
Mike Pompeo and Rick Scott are headed to Iowa this week and next, followed by Tim Scott in mid-April. Mike Pence plans to visit the early primary state of South Carolina, while Ron DeSantis appears to be conducting a soft launch in his home state of Florida.
Jeff Kaufmann, chair of the Iowa Republican Party, said he’s never seen so much interest so early in a presidential election cycle.
“Iowa’s going to be hopping,” Kaufmann said.
But what’s truly unique about the Republicans’ pre-presidential primary is the contingent framework that is unfolding around it. It’s a primary — but a wholly conditional one. Prospective 2024 candidates, donors and conservative media outlets — the entire Republican ecosystem — are building strategies and structuring the race around the single question of whether former President Donald Trump runs again.
It’s been nearly a half-century since either party had to navigate a primary in which a losing president loomed as a potential contestant.
“He’s got them in a box,” said Matt Moore, former chair of the South Carolina Republican Party….
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“If you do nothing and assume Trump’s going to run and he says, ‘I’m not going to run,’ then you’re scrambling,” said Wesley Enos, the former chair of the Republican Party in Iowa’s Polk County. “Now is your opportunity, realistically.”
In part, the uncertainty surrounding the primary is a function of how infrequently presidents lose second terms — and remain politically viable enough to run again. George H. W. Bush didn’t loom over the 1996 presidential primary after losing reelection in 1992. Jerry Ford, after losing the White House in 1976, considered running for a full term in 1980. But he didn’t have anywhere near the pull within the party that Trump has today….
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In a primary in which the former president is still outpacing every other potential contender, said Tony Fabrizio, who was a Trump pollster in 2020, the goal is not to be seen as preferable to Trump — but as the best alternative.
“As long as he holds sway, everybody’s going to be looking at, ‘How do I get his voters if he chooses not to run?’” Fabrizio said. “The No. 1 question — and if it’s not, they should fire whoever’s working for them right now — is how does my candidate get to be the second choice of Trump voters.”
In the modern era, the cycle of presidential maneuvering never really begins or ends….
image…The Hill
Who can lick the boot the best?
Trump specifically mentioned the following as future leaders of the Republican Party in an interview today:
Josh Hawley
Ted Cruz
Rand Paul
Ron DeSantis
Kristi Noem
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
I have stated previously that,for various reasons, I doubted that Trump will run again.
I also believe that the Republicans will not nominate anyone he actively opposes.
He specifically mentioned them as strong 2024 Presidential contenders, which also makes it seem like running is not truly on his mind.
Those who he did not name is as noteworthy (Pence, Pompeo, Rick Scott, or family members)
Your post (running is not on his mind) implies that we can believe what Trump says. If Trump does decide to run, I don’t see how someone like Hawley could win.
A late development is that the MAGA crowd feels betrayed by Kristi Noem because she “caved” on some sort of transgender sports thing and that she can no longer be trusted to properly own the libs.
DeSantis is definitely a favorite of many of them.
South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem on Friday suggested language changes in a bill to ban transgender girls and women from participating in girls’ or women’s sports leagues to limit the ban to high school and elementary schools, excluding college sports from the proposal.
The Republican governor had initially tweeted she was “excited to sign” the bill after it passed the Legislature but sent the bill back to lawmakers with suggestions to change its language. The governor’s move, known as a style and form veto, amounted to a setback for the bill, but still kept it alive. A majority of both chambers of the Legislature can approve it on March 29.
Noem’s proposal would limit the ban to high school and elementary sports and exclude collegiate athletics. Opponents to the bill had warned that it would cause the state to lose out on millions of dollars from the NCAA if it pulls out of sports tournaments, though it was not clear if Noem’s proposed changes would ultimately deter that.
“I am also concerned that the approach House Bill 1217 takes is unrealistic in the context of collegiate athletics,” Noem said in a letter sent to lawmakers.
Legislatures in more than 20 states have proposed restrictions on athletics or gender transition surgeries for transgender minors this year. But Noem’s reversal showed that even in conservative states with an appetite for enacting laws that discriminate against transgender people, Republican lawmakers are weighing the financial fallout. The Republican governor of only one state — Mississippi’s Tate Reeves — has signed such a ban into law….
The Associated Press via The Independent (London, England)
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The Associated Press via The Independent (London, England)
I DID ask WTF would he put himself in the running?
Heck , One COUKD see him asking himself why did he run fo Presidency in the first place?
He could have kept running under the radar and made a TON more of money snd hung out woth buddy Putin away from the spot light…
My brother (who lives in FL during the winter) was telling me these stories about DeSantis which if 1/3 true makes him seem like a Trumpist with a much smaller brain, and with lower ethical standards.
DeSantis polled BIG at CPAC….
Ted Cruz will struggle to keep his seat.
One would hope Z….
Bit Texas has a way of flirting with Dem’s but going home with GOPer’s
Well, if so, I hope whoever takes Cruz home f***s him until Cruz is sore. But it would be a one time thing. I don’t think too many people would want Cruz to stay with them more than an hour.
Ouch!
Unless the trial’s and tribulations soil him beyond repair ?
Right NOW i agree with u Jack..
Hogan
Haley
Romney
Rubio
All have their work cut out for themselved
I don’t regard Hogan as a serious contender.90% of the potential delegates regard him as a RINO.
Romney has essentially become the Grand Ol Man.Hes not running for President and maybe not even the Senate again.
Rubio is yesterday’s golden boy.
Haley initially tried to claim the anti Trump mantle .Then when she caught some flak ,hurriedly tried to make amends with Trump.He wouldn’t even talk with her.If you think ,as I do ,that even a non candidate Trump will exercise an unofficial veto over the 2024 candidate?Then Nikki is dead.Trump will never support her.He never really cared for her,often made sarcastic remarks about her, and only let her be UN Ambassador as a favor to Henry McMaster so he could be Governor.
I think if Trump runs it will be after a protracted period of propping up and tearing down lackeys like Hawley, Dr Santis, Noem etc.
He’ll make these weasels all dance for his approval and then claim only he is true MAGA and will dash all of their dreams. It will 100% be what these lackey creeps deserve That’s *if* he does run or is able to run. Which I’m still 50/50 on.
Now what several of us on here said would happen last year. That Trump would lose interest in politics and let the GOP be clearly isn’t happening. I can admit I was wrong about that. I thought he would claim he and his supporters were “too good” for politics.
Others quoted stuff his nice said. Either way that does not seem to be the case whether people who claim they are “rarely wrong” want to admit it or not.
I agree with Scott, our Republican friend with the MAGA phobia better pray the law takes Trump out.
Right now the GOP seems to have made voter suppression their ticket to the White House. That and fear of immigrants seem to be their only policy proposals.
Rick Scott Heads to Iowa
Miami Herald: “Rick Scott is laying the groundwork for a potential 2024 presidential run, and his path — if successful — will look a lot like his three statewide races in Florida. In 2010, 2014 and 2018, Scott outspent the competition.”
“But $150 million won’t buy the presidency in 2024 … If he wants to outspend the 2024 competition, he’ll need help from national donors.”
Another piece pointing to OTHER Republicans BESIDES Donald Trump menuvering for a run for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination…
Less than three months after former President Donald Trump left the White House, the race to succeed him atop the Republican Party is already beginning.
Trump’s former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has launched an aggressive schedule, visiting states that will play a pivotal role in the 2024 primaries, and he has signed a contract with Fox News Channel. Mike Pence, Trump’s former vice president, has started a political advocacy group, finalized a book deal and later this month will give his first speech since leaving office in South Carolina. And Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been courting donors, including in Trump’s backyard, with a prominent speaking slot before the former president at a GOP fundraising retreat dinner this month at Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort where Trump now lives….
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Regardless of Trump’s ultimate decision, his critics and acolytes alike say they see the future of the party as dependent on maintaining their appeal to Trump voters, while at the same time winning back the suburban voters who abandoned them last fall.
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