Posted on 09/03/2021 4:23:25 PM PDT by RandFan
Retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa.) urged his party to not nominate former President Trump in the 2024 presidential race.
In an interview with CNBC on Friday, Toomey was asked whether he would be disappointed if Trump became the GOP nominee in 2024.
“Yeah, after what happened post-2020 election. I think the president’s behavior was completely unacceptable,” Toomey said. “So I don’t think he should be the nominee to lead the party in 2024.”
“There’s no one obvious candidate, but there are many, many people who could do a fantastic job,” he added.
Toomey has pushed back against Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.
The Pennsylvania Republican was one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict the former president on impeachment charges of inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He was later censured by several county Republican parties in his home state for the vote.
Trump, who consistently polls as the most popular Republican among GOP voters, has publicly flirted with running again in 2024.
Regarding the future of the GOP, Toomey said the party should not be “about any one individual.”
“I think that the future of our party is to be a party of ideas, and not to be a party about any one individual. And I think we will learn a lot from the next set of primaries,” he said.
Toomey has said he will not seek reelection in 2022. Among the candidates to succeed him, Trump has endorsed Republican Sean Parnell, who unsuccessfully challenged Rep. Connor Lamb (D-Pa.) last yea
Ok well,bye.
Going out the same way Arlen Spector did — bitter and without a political home.
umbelievable jerk...here there’s serious corruption in PA...could this guy be connected somehow to the blockade suffered by Trump
I will give Toomey’s sentiments all the consideration they deserve. Okay, now I am done.
..but Joe Biden’s “behavior” is so much better.
Ideas? The ONLY person in the GOP with any ideas IS Trump.
The rest of the GOP is “well at least we not as bad as the Democrats”
He finds Biden acceptable.
Eff you, Pat
And I think we will learn a lot from the next set of primaries,” he said.
Bank on it doofus.
I’ll fully support President Trump if he runs again. But if I had my druthers, I’d like to see someone younger get the nomination.
Party has nothing to do with it.
GOP Voters decide.
And if Trump runs he will win nomination.
And then the Presidency.
Adios, RINO. Please DO let the door hit you in your Obamahole when you slither out.
Pat Toomey
Spit
Hey pat....you still here ?
Don’t let the door hit your arse on the way out.
Oh, and don’t ever show your worthless face again...hear ?
Spit.
I recall the heady days when Toomey was one of us!
Who did he sell out to?
And, why did he sell out?
“.....many, many people who could do a fantastic job.”
Ok. Name many, Patty Cakes.....
He’s smart to retire.
No obvious candidate? Really? If Trump doesn’t run DeSantis is obvious. Has the senator been under a rock?
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