Posted on 02/24/2023 8:14:13 AM PST by SoConPubbie
There are now two rivals to former President Donald Trump officially in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. But neither of them is sufficiently anti-Trump for the media to be excited.
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the estimable Jason L. Riley took umbrage with Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and UN ambassador, for launching her campaign Feb. 15 without challenging Trump directly.
He said Haley missed her chance:
Even more curious was her reluctance to mention Donald Trump by name. … Ms. Haley might think that she can pretend he doesn’t exist, or somehow play down his presence in the race, but the reality is that any Republican who wants to challenge Joe Biden first needs to take down Mr. Trump. … Someone will have to mount a frontal attack at some point. Ms. Haley could have taken credit for going first.
Haley has said that she does not “kick sideways.” Evidently, neither does biotech entrepreneur and anti-“woke” activist Vivek Ramaswamy, who wrote an entire op-ed in the Journal explaining why he is running for the 2024 nomination, and did not mention Trump once.
Even Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who many Republicans see as the top contender to take on the former president, has preferred to focus on the issues rather than on Trump.
That is not to say no one is taking on Trump.
At the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership conference last November, potential GOP candidates Chris Christie, Larry Hogan, and Mike Pompeo all attacked Trump, in varying degrees of intensity. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) has said outright that he thinks Trump cannot beat President Joe Biden in 2024, given the negative reactions Trump provokes among some voters.
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“The media demand”? The MEDIA are the ones who actively participated in massive voter fraud, coverups, and other major crimes adversely affecting the American people, and continue to do so. I could care less what the MEDIA want. They can all go to the devil, for my money. They are already broadcasting from Hell, where they belong.
They just want to control who the nominee is. They know they can’t win against the Democrats.
Just sayin'.
Not an uncommon thought, though not everyone says it outright.
It’s very important that Republicans take advice from the red communists in Big Media ...
America if not the World needs Trump.
Not an uncommon thought, though not everyone says it outright.
75 million voters said outright and otherwise in 2020. And that's at the very least of the amount of votes Trump may have gotten.
How many votes have Sununu's establishment candidates, Bush, Bush, MCain and Romney, gotten over the years?
I’m wondering what Trump’s republican opponents are going to say about him? He lowered taxes? Lowered food and fuel costs? Brought peace to the middle east? Took and America first position? Started closing the border?
This is going to get interesting in how are the candidates are going to out Trump Trump.
“America if not the World needs Trump.”
Agreed.
And as soon as the pub nominee is in, they’ll turn on him like a pack of wild dogs.
Only the theft of that election made him the now usurper in the white House ruining this nation.
He will defeat him again in 2024. It's up to us to make that happen, by overcoming the attempted theft that will most assuredly be attempted yet again.
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