Posted on 10/25/2024 5:28:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 2022, shortly before the midterm elections and the unofficial start of the 2024 presidential campaign, the conservative activist Christopher Rufo traveled to Maine to appear on Tucker Carlson’s Fox Nation streaming talk show. For the previous two years, he was a frequent guest of Mr. Carlson’s. He usually did his hits — on the evils of critical race theory, or the plague of “trans indoctrination” — from his home outside Seattle. This time, he was excited to meet Mr. Carlson in person. When Mr. Rufo arrived at the Fox host’s rustic studio, after a cross-country flight and a 90-minute drive from the Portland airport, he discovered someone else in the Maine backwoods: Donald Trump Jr.
It was a perilous moment for the Trump family. After Jan. 6, Donald Trump had become persona non grata in elite Republican circles. (When he officially began his 2024 presidential campaign after the midterms, Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post buried the news on page 26 under the headline “Been There, Don That.”) Many conservative leaders appeared ready to swing behind the presidential candidacy of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, whose promise of “competent Trumpism” — all the right-wing policies and red meat, none of the baggage — was striking a chord. That certainly seemed to be the case with Mr. Carlson, who hosted Mr. DeSantis on his show at least six times between September 2021 and the midterms; he didn’t have the former president on once. Mr. Rufo, meanwhile, was advising the governor on how to combat liberal teaching about race and gender in Florida’s schools.
At Mr. Carlson’s Maine redoubt, Mr. Trump Jr. never brought up his father or Mr. DeSantis or the presidential campaign. But Mr. Rufo assumed that was “the subtext of the visit” — that Mr. Trump Jr. was there...
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They could get some stuff done.
I sure don’t see Kimberly Guilfoyle as First Lady.
No family dynasties in the USA.
We don’t have royalty in this country. Don Jr has the personality of a dish towel. He would be watching on the sidelines with Jen Bush after about two primaries.
She was married to the governor of California, before Don Jr.
She would do fine
I think the Trump to keep an eye out for the future is: Lara Trump!
Yeah, some people are built for support rather than being the frontman.
I’m more concerned with getting over the finish line here than ‘the future’.
We just flushed down 4 years on Biden’s train wreck term, time to get things from the brink.
The Adamses did all right.
Oh wait…
She is going to cash out if he wins this year. I think she has done a good job. I don’t see the “ego” needed to run for President. Don Jr has the ego, but he does not have his father’s personality. That’s not a slam on the guy…but Srs personality is what gives him that edge. There are a ton of smart, ambitious people in the party. There will be a ton of competition.
I already keep my eye ON Lara Trump.....
She seems to be the brains of the bunch.
Yes . Lara is a smartie
Dear NYT: May all your (bad) dreams come true.
Congratulations. You just violated the FR consent decree by publishing the entire paywall protected article.
I’d love to see her as First Lady
Yes!! After DJT, she is by far my favorite Trump.
You have zero understanding of where we are at to say something so stupid. The Trump family are proven anti-globalists.
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