“I support President Trump running in 2024,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik, the No. 3 House Republican, who said she’d endorse him over other GOP candidates for the White House.
Of the more than 12 GOP leaders in both chambers POLITICO interviewed for this story, Stefanik went furthest in her expression of support for Trump. Yet while Republicans aren’t endorsing him early, they aren’t getting in his way, either. Many are prepared to adopt the same playbook they did in 2016: Allow a crowded presidential primary field to sort itself out with minimal interference...
As the Jan. 6 select committee divulges new details about Trump’s actions during the Capitol attack, including staying quiet for hours as he watched the violence unfold with his vice president and GOP lawmakers in the building, Republicans are facing real risks. Many believe a Trump presidential announcement before November will weigh down their party’s efforts to sweepingly reclaim the House majority and potentially get back the Senate...
“There’s a verse in the Bible that says, ‘sufficient unto the day as the evil thereof.’ So I’m not going to worry about what could happen in the future,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s leadership team and his potential successor as the GOP leader. “I hope he waits until after the midterms to make a decision.”
pb's been up front. He supports Ron DeSantis for President. If DeSantis is the nominee, and makes a helpful Veep choice, we're looking at a 1980s style Electoral College landslide: 370+ votes.
With OrangeMan? pb can't see how he'll lose in 024 but, and, here's the thing: Life in these United States will revolve around him, more for you who don't support him than those who will have voted for him...like pb.
Bottom line. It looks like Trump's a comfortable favorite to take the GOP nomination in 024...and the favorite to be elected in 024.
One note about the POLITICO article.
It dropped at 4:30 am EDT, what?, six hours after Lizzy banged the gavel on the eighth televised J6 Committee hearing.
So, if you think the earth moved after all that powerful testimony about those 187 minutes, it's time for you to come back to earth.
Nuthin.
Trump's on his way to the GOP nomination and reelection in 024.
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