“We’re stuck with [Trump],” one longtime Republican operative said, citing recent conversations with pollsters, lawmakers, and major donors.
Immediately following the deadly Jan. 6 riot on Capitol Hill, several leaders and prominent figures in his own party wanted to ditch President Donald Trump, blame him for inciting the mob, or at least move on from him.
It took less than a month for almost all of the official GOP to start crawling back to him. GOP bigwigs who were, very briefly, prepared to throw Trump onto the ash heap of history following his primary role in sparking the MAGA riot and for helping the Republican Party lose the presidency and both houses of Congress are now beginning to shield the ex-president, once again, from his liberal foes.
Top Republican lawmakers are increasingly signaling that they are ready to let Trump off the hook yet another time, and the former president has been working the phones from his new home base in Florida in an effort to make sure GOP senators vote to acquit him in an upcoming impeachment trial.
“He's very interested in the outcome of the trial and I talked to him yesterday, and I told him the vote yesterday is a sign of things to come,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a close Trump ally, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday.
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WNU Editor: Of course a large number of Republicans are crawling back to him. And why not.
Almost 75 million Americans voted for him. Something that no Republican Presidential candidate has ever come close to achieving.
His share of ever demographic increased in the last election to levels that every Republican candidate in the past could only dream about .... Black/Hispanic/females/etc. .... they all voted for him in numbers not seen for a Republican in decades. And as to why did he lose. He lost in only one demographic .... white males, and they were the ones who sealed his fate.
Republican politicians also know that the former President got a lot of things done, and provided leadership for the Republican party that was sorely needed. And while his character definitely turned off a lot of Republican officials, his policies were main stream. He connected with half of the country, and they in turn attended his allies in numbers that I doubt I will ever see again.
The Republican base is also loyal to him, and if President Biden/Vice-President Harris fail in the next four years, I predict support for former President Trump will easily increase beyond his base.
As to the big question .... will he run again?
There is a precedent for this in U.S. Presidential history. President Grover Cleveland lost in his re-election bid in 1888, but roared back 4 years later to win the Presidential election for a second time.
Will former President Trump run again?
If I was Trump I would not run another time. Enjoy life and focus on other things. But I am not Trump.
Update: He is telling everyone that he is not going away .... Trump says he 'will always and forever be a champion for the American people' in first official statement from his newly opened 'Office of the Former President' (Daily Mail).
