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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.
“There are incentives for no-hope candidates to overstay their prospects. Coming in behind first place may grease another run in four years or have market value of its own: Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum got paying gigs,” he said.
“And as former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu has observed, ‘It is fun running for president if you know you cannot win,’” he continued. “Left to their own inclinations, expect several of the contenders to stay in the race for a long time. They will split the non-Trump vote, giving him the prize. A plurality is all that is needed for winner-take-all primaries.”
Romney further cautioned donors against believing in GOP leaders or campaign staff or campaign consultants.
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All of them are low polling compared to Trump.
Guess hes a Trump supporter and doesn’t even know it.
Mitt works harder to beat republicans than he does to defeat democrats. Just like 2012.
Trying to clear a way for DeSantis. And, like most things Romney does it’s a bust.
Willard wants to run for POTUS again but he wants to be the only one running in the GOP primary...
He thinks his chance of getting the nomination will be much better if hes the only name on the ballot ..
Even then he’d lose
:)
Will we ever be rid of Pierre Delecto?
Dear Pierre Delecto (aka Mitt Romney),
Just to be clear, there is no candidate that is even marginally close to the Republican Nomination besides Donald Trump. No amount of influence or eGOP money is likely to change that, but it exposes those involved with Burisma, kickbacks via children, and theft of Government resources to increased scrutiny should Donald Trump win the Presidency.
Rmoney disgusts me.
Lisa Murkowski, the “ Republican “ who was supported in her 2022 election by Mitt, McConnell and Tim Scott, says she’ll leave the GOP if DJT is re-elected.
Funny how these RINOs are completely silent on the Biden quid-pro-quo crime revelations.
Pretty much all politics is collusion to affect an election. Nothing illegal about it.
Minion Romney is so funny.
Dude, they are ALL polling badly against Trump. Today’s poll had Trump up four over Rutabaga.
Id love for someone to ask Mittens about HIS Burisma connection..how much did he get
The only thing worse than a Barak O’Biden is a Mitt McRomneybush. It is the devil you don’t know.
Mitt sure doesn’t like the base. Is he hiding something? Time to get rid of him. Primary him out.
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