Trump won’t be pres. if Iowa’s longest serving Republican has his way:
(Must watch short news conference clip)
“I believe that it is just a matter of time before our party pays a heavy price for President Trump’s reckless spending and shortsighted financial policies, his erratic, destabilizing foreign policy and his disregard for environmental concerns,” McKean added.
“If this is the new normal, I want no part of it.”
More important, in my opinion, are defections by conservative mandarins like this one by George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School professor JW Verret, an esrtwhile Republican enabler and legal apologist, who now calls for Trump’s impeachment.
As much as I hope you’re right, I must invoke the :rolleyes:
Remember all the never-Trumpers in 2016? Many mandarin-like Republicans were disgusted by him and tried to tell the rest of the party how he didn’t represent their values and would cast the party in shame yada yada yada. Look how that turned out. Why would 2020 be any different?
He needs to win to prevent him from being indicted on crimes he was involved in when President or on the road to. Pence or someone later can then pardon him. Except he’ll get picked up on state level crimes. So will his children who were involved. That man wants to win and hopefully fall ill in his 2nd term. Becoming President was one of his worst mistakes. Who gave a damn about his dealings before he ran? Yeah, he was an asshole, but no one spent months or years investigating him.
And if press pool accounts are anything to go by, he’s always in a rage and yelling so loud they can hear him in the Oval Office from the press room, doors closed. The best thing Trump has done as a runner and as POTUS was cause so much tension in the GOP and cause them to go above and beyond because assholes that the party is slowly imploding. It’s beautiful.
He’s never stopped campaigning.
There may come a time when McConnell and the Republican old guard decide that Trump will lose them the Senate along with the Presidency. If that happens they will make Trump an offer he can’t refuse and he will resign. Pence will absolve him of all sins legal and political ending Pence’s political career.
The Republicans are then free to find a plausible candidate - probably Romney.