Trump already has a primary opponent
This week I called Trump facing a serious primary challenger a 100:1 shot. Boy was I off. It was already a closed contract. On April 15, 2019 Bill Weld officially announced he would be running for president, challenging incumbent Donald Trump. How was I not tracking on that and cheering on Mr. Weld?
Weld (former Governor of Massachusetts) is on MSNBC right now and his case for primarying Trump is rock solid.
These guys appear to be ready to join weld and beging driving the Manchurian Pumpkin to distraction:
Joe Walsh, a pugnacious former congressman, is preparing a Republican primary challenge to President Trump that he previewed as a daily “bar fight” with the incumbent over his morality and competency.
Mark Sanford, a former South Carolina governor and congressman, said he is inching closer to a bid of his own by sounding out activists in New Hampshire and other early-voting states about an insurgency focused on the ballooning deficit.
Jeff Flake, a former Arizona senator and Trump antagonist, said he has taken a flurry of recruitment calls in recent days from GOP donors rattled by signs of an economic slowdown and hungry for an alternative to Trump.
And former Ohio governor John Kasich will head to New Hampshire next month to “take a look at things” after experiencing “an increase” in overtures this summer, an adviser said.
The anti-Trump movement inside the Republican Party — long a political wasteland — is feeling new urgency to mount a credible opposition to Trump before it’s too late.
Weld represents perhaps the last vestige of the ‘Rockefeller wing’ of the Rethuglican Party. A wing that was on the road to extinction once Richard Nixon embraced the southern strategy, aka an appeal to white racists everywhere.
Weld has no traction, although I’m glad he’s in the race. Some of these others are better prepared to take a bite out of King Cheeto’s hide.
I felt sure massive egos would bring a few out, another chance for another 15 minutes of fame is a powerful motivator for some. But some sense vulnerability, perhaps an approaching tipping point for the grand bloviator, if such a thing really does exist.
Mr Weld was the 2016 Vice Presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party; that kind of needed to be mentioned.