Posted on 07/24/2023 7:59:27 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) has called upon the Republican donor class to start pressuring low-polling GOP candidates into dropping out of the 2024 presidential race to defeat Trump.
Romney issued his call in a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Monday. He said that the donor class needs to pressure candidates with no path to drop out by February of next year at the very latest.
“Despite Donald Trump’s apparent inevitability, a baker’s dozen Republicans are hoping to become the party’s 2024 nominee for president,” he wrote. “That is possible for any of them if the field narrows to a two-person race before Mr. Trump has the nomination sewn up.”
“For that to happen, Republican megadonors and influencers—large and small—are going to have to do something they didn’t do in 2016: get candidates they support to agree to withdraw if and when their paths to the nomination are effectively closed,” he added.
Romney said that such candidates will not drop out on their own due to the financial incentives as well as the increased exposure.
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To think that he was the GOP nominee in 2012 and almost in 2008.
And that he is a horrible human. How dies Mitt and the donor class get to decide who we the people get to vote for?
“Breaking! Mitt Romney To Lobby GOP Donors to Pressure Low-Polling Candidates Out of 2024 Race to Defeat Trump”
Clearing the field for Trump and Vivek. Nice of him to do that!
All the candidates are polling low compared to PDJT.
Huh? Except for President Trump, they’re ALL “low polling candidates”!!
Has anyone shared this critical information with Mr. Delecto?
Once again, Willard proves that he’s a RINO POS!
It won’t matter.
He is just as corrupt as Biden is!
Maybe Mitt could go after Biden for a change.
...actually, Bob you IDIOT*, he’s trying to clear the field for a late entry, as in Youngkin, most likely a demand of Youngkin if they really want him to enter the race. After all, they already know that they blew it with DeSantis.
The question, of course, is whether they’ve actually learned anything from their experience with DeSantis. We shall see.
*yeah, I know I’m posting to myself, but it was still an idiotic comment.
“And that he is a horrible human. How does Mitt and the donor class get to decide who we the people get to vote for?”
They did until 2016. That’s why they are so mad. Their money no longer buys control.
Rare broken clock moment for Romney. Most of these candidates have zero chance, but besides the usual business opportunities opened by running for president, they probably all figure they have a shot at the convention if Trump is in jail and there’s no clear alternative candidate - not an unreasonable assumption.
I doubt that would make any difference. They get DeSantis or Vivek to drop out and a lot of their voters would just go to Trump.
The bottom row of candidates don’t have enough support anyways to make any impact.
I mentioned this in another thread, that they might do Trump like the “moderate establishment” Dems did to Bernie Sanders. When they all dropped and endorsed Biden after South Carolina
NOT Vivek.
He's armpit deep in the Big Pharmascam industry!
Mitt the bitch....
(Clearing the field for Trump and Vivek.)
I don’t think Trump would share a ticket with a non-natural born Citizen. His parents weren’t naturalized citizens when he was born.
You’re totally correct 💯%.
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