Moderate Republicans begin speculating about 2020 primary challenger to Trump
Several high-profile moderate Republicans have begun publicly speculating about the possibility that President Trump could face a primary challenger when he seeks re-election in 2020.
The latest Republican to do so is U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona. Trump and Flake have recently exchanged words, with the president saying he is “not a fan of” Flake.
During an interview Wednesday on Georgia Public Broadcasting, Flake said Trump seems to be “inviting” a primary challenge.
“I think he could govern in a way that he wouldn’t,” Flake said. “But, I think that the way that — the direction he’s headed right now, just kind of drilling down on the base rather than trying to expand the base — I think he’s inviting [a challenge].”
“(T)he direction he’s headed right now, just kind of drilling down on the base rather than trying to expand the base — I think he’s inviting [a challenge].”
– U.S. SEN. JEFF FLAKE, R-ARIZ., REFERRING TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
Flake, who has been promoting a book that’s critical of the president, knows something about getting primaried: Trump has expressed support for Kelli Ward, a former Arizona GOP state lawmaker who is challenging Flake in next year’s U.S. Senate race.
But Flake isn’t the only Republican talking about a competitive Republican primary in 2020.
Earlier this week, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who irked the president by not voting for ObamaCare repeal legislation, criticized Trump’s response to the white supremacists involved in the violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Appearing on MSNBC, Collins was asked if she believes Trump will be the Republican nominee in 2020.
“It’s too difficult to say,” Collins said.
NBC’s Willie Geist reported last week that “sources close” to Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 2016, say there is an growing sense of “moral imperative” to primary the president in the wake of the Charlottesville violence.
Asked about the report during an appearance on CNN on Sunday, Kasich denied planning a campaign against Trump at this point.
“I don’t have any plans to do anything like that,” Kasich said. “I’m rooting for him to get it together. We all are. We’re like seven months into this presidency.”
“I’m rooting for him to get it together. We all are. We’re like seven months into this presidency.”
– OHIO GOV. JOHN KASICH, REFERRING TO PRESIDENT TRUMP
Even with the next presidential election more than three years away, the president has ramped up political activity in recent months, including holding several campaign-style rallies and a fundraiser in June at his Washington hotel.
“Of course he’s running for re-election,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the time of the fundraiser.
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Soros paid people to do Charlottesville & McMaster works for Soros and not for Trump and McMaster is in the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) of the New World Order (NWO) and of Bilderberg and others. There was violence and more on both sides at Charlottesville for example and other places. Beyond that, both sides are mostly paid by Soros and other NWO people and there are a lot of big bad wolves and bad people and powers that be in this world including Rothschild, Rockefeller, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Bill Gates, Apple, Microsoft, the EU, the NAU, the UN, the FBI, the CIA, the IRS, the FRS, NATO, NAFTA, TPP, Clinton, Obama, Bush, centralized groups, religions, established party lines, fake news, main stream media, and much more and these bad people have been killing us people for hundreds of years and much more and they use Islam and Jihad against us in the agenda 21 thing and other things and it is a big bad thing where they are trying to take over the world through technocracy, plutocracy, corporatism, monopolism, Satanism, Luciferianism, communism, socialism, oligarchy tyranny, and so much more. Your country first, MAGA. Your family first. Lower taxes. More freedoms, more choices, for work, health care, regulations, education, land ownerships, freedoms of speech, religions, rights, expression, press, statues, and much more is better. I am TRUMP. You are TRUMP. We are all TRUMP. We are the TRUMP. We are the people. We the people by the people like JFK said. They are trying to kill TRUMP and we must stop the bad people before they murder TRUMP slowly over time because after they slowly poison TRUMP over time, then they go after us globally and then we will start dying more so after that than ever before. We are in a big war right now.
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