Posted on 08/05/2017 11:25:52 AM PDT by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON Senators Tom Cotton and Ben Sasse have already been to Iowa this year, Gov. John Kasich is eyeing a return visit to New Hampshire, and Mike Pences schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke that he is acting more like a second-term vice president hoping to clear the field than a No. 2 sworn in a little over six months ago.
President Trumps first term is ostensibly just warming up, but luminaries in his own party have begun what amounts to a shadow campaign for 2020 as if the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue werent involved.
The would-be candidates are cultivating some of the partys most prominent donors, courting conservative interest groups and carefully enhancing their profiles. Mr. Trump has given no indication that he will decline to seek a second term.
Mr. Kasich has been more defiant: The Ohio governor, who ran unsuccessfully in 2016, has declined to rule out a 2020 campaign in multiple television interviews, and has indicated to associates that he may run again, even if Mr. Trump seeks another term.
Mr. Kasich, who was a sharp critic of the Republicans failed attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act with deep Medicaid cuts, intends to step up his advocacy by convening a series of policy forums, in Ohio and around the country.
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LOL. Sasse will be 2020’s McMuffin. That is fine by me because that means Sasse will be giving up his Senate seat without a fight. He would lose it anyway in the primary, but it’s nice not to have to waste resources getting rid of him.
As to Cotton, he can’t be that stupid. He was just at the White House talking about his immigration bill. If he was in Iowa, it was probably to start making relationships for 2024.
Trump owns websites for Trump/Pence 2020.
The lieberals think they can speak things into existence. Only one entity can do that.
Cotton is known Bilderberger associate and 'Never-Trumper' associate of William Kristol. He is as "Deep State" as they come.
No, the NYT must NEVER get over it. They must continue in perpetual fits of rage, driven to insanity.
NYTBS
Cotton? Just sayin that word is now racis’.
Drudge is useless. All that is is a site to sensationalize whatever they can find to republish from other sources, with an anti-Trump bias tossed in.
Drudge is pushing a meme.......
Drudge has had his nose out of joint, with Trump, for some time now.
It’s gotten very old.
I no longer visit his site, since he insists on pushing these NYSlimes/WaComPost BS stories.
Our posts are nearly identical ;-)
I think he’s already signed up.
There is no way Kasich will be nominated by the GOP. Even if Trump doesn’t run.
Thanks Jane and CementJungle for the info. I rarely visit Drudge myself. Went there today, saw that meme and thought it should have been rebutted. I won’t waste any more time there.
the failing new york times — a blog for blue sky wishful liberal daydreaming?
Little Natelie Silver of 538 had Hellary at 93% for the win. LoL.
Particularly the first sitting Republican since Reagan who didn’t backstab the base.
FR under another DNS attack?
Yes. 100%
Kasich, maybe.
And Sasse thinks he is a wunderkind.
But I doubt Cotton or Pence would be betray Trump.
The Republicans in the establishment are determined to hold on to their party. Let’s dissuade them of that notion. We took out Cantor, we took out Lugar, we took out Castle, we took out Jeb, we can keep the ball rolling.
Look, not every one of these battles will be won. But we need to keep fighting. Third party is not good, but taking over, bit by bit, the Republicans is the way to go.
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