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Bill Weld joins 2020 race as GOP challenger to Trump
Washington Examiner ^ | April 15, 201 | Zachary Halaschak

Posted on 04/15/2019 2:31:52 PM PDT by Coronal

Former Massachusetts Gov. William “Bill” Weld announced Monday he is running against President Trump for the Republican nomination for president.

Weld revealed that he formed a presidential exploratory committee back in February, but Monday’s announcement makes his intra-party challenge official.

“In these times of great political strife, when both major parties are entrenched in their ‘win at all cost’ battles, the voices of the American people are being ignored and our nation is suffering,” Weld said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner. “ … It is time to return to the principles of Lincoln – equality, dignity, and opportunity for all."

He added: "There is no greater cause on earth than to preserve what truly makes America great."

Weld, 73, is the first major Republican challenger to Trump’s presidency. He was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as a U.S. attorney and served in that role from 1981 to 1986. Weld served for the following two years as the U.S. assistant attorney general for the criminal division under Reagan.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2020; 2020gopprimary; billweld; donaldtrump; gop; trump; trump2020; weld; williamweld
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To: Coronal

Weld was the Libertarian Party nominee for Vice President in 2016.

During the 2016 campaign, Weld publicly stated he would vote for Hillary Clinton if he was not on the Libertarian ticket.


21 posted on 04/15/2019 2:39:11 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Coronal

Good. This means debates featuring Trump who will dominate and get to mock the Democrat media flea circus primary going on at the same time.


22 posted on 04/15/2019 2:39:18 PM PDT by rhombus10
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To: Innovative

This is just to distract Trump so he can’t focus on the Democrats from the beginning.
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Correct.
Another Bush League Republican doing whatever it takes to block the citizens from stopping the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)


23 posted on 04/15/2019 2:39:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Coronal

Time for the stupid party to do to its back stabbers what the dims have done to theirs.

Inform the backstabber that he will get zero support from the national party, either financial or in spirit and that anyone who does support him will also be shunned.


24 posted on 04/15/2019 2:39:35 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There isTha no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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To: mdmathis6

I was dumb in the mid eighty’s...are you still there?


25 posted on 04/15/2019 2:40:13 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: eddie willers

Weld is an old drunk who wants attention.

President Trump can completely ignore him.


26 posted on 04/15/2019 2:41:20 PM PDT by onyx (Join 300 CLUB BY DONATING $34 t! TRUMP'S WAY IS THE WINNING WAY!)
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To: Coronal

So Bill can match the $30,000,000 Trump has already collected from small donors?

Impressive.


27 posted on 04/15/2019 2:41:39 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Coronal
Should pull in about .5 - 1.5% of the primary vote.

But, it gives him cover to collect money from people who want him to use his connections to influence government decisions on various levels - legitimizing his graft and giving MSNBC viewers little "intra-party strife!" woodies now that impeachment has left them limp.

28 posted on 04/15/2019 2:42:17 PM PDT by dead (Our next president is going to be sooooo boring.)
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To: Coronal

What an absolute joke:

Bill Weld is a DRUNK!


29 posted on 04/15/2019 2:42:23 PM PDT by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Coronal

What a dirt bag.


30 posted on 04/15/2019 2:44:26 PM PDT by jmacusa ("The more numerous the laws the more corrupt the government''.)
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To: Coronal

In other words, Weld wants a gig on MSNBC or CNN and needs to generate some buzz to get it.


31 posted on 04/15/2019 2:44:44 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Reno89519

This surely must be a joke. My Aunt Minnie has a better chance.


32 posted on 04/15/2019 2:45:10 PM PDT by Bayan
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To: Coronal

He’s okay with 40 week murder.... he goes nowhere.


33 posted on 04/15/2019 2:45:45 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: Coronal

Eff all deep state POSes.


34 posted on 04/15/2019 2:46:52 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Bayan

Weld just wants the ethanol.


35 posted on 04/15/2019 2:47:54 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: mdmathis6
A little early in the day for that. 🙄
36 posted on 04/15/2019 2:48:24 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Osage Orange

It was an expression of fear that in states that allow cross over voting in the primaries, that Democrat saboteurs could vote in significant numbers with never Trumper types to deny Trump the nomination for president. The Dems hated Reagan in the eighties and did all kinds of histrionic crap to him. I’m not in the eighties but the Dems are.... and they are just as nongrownup and vicious as ever.


37 posted on 04/15/2019 2:51:15 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: Coronal

WTH!!RNC!!!


38 posted on 04/15/2019 2:51:49 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Jane Long

See my post at 37 and you’ll understand my position. Wasn’t trying to be sarcastic or a downer...just expressing concern.


39 posted on 04/15/2019 2:53:12 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: mdmathis6

Ok........


40 posted on 04/15/2019 2:54:30 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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