Posted on 03/11/2018 11:24:43 AM PDT by conservative98
WASHINGTON – President Trump should have a conservative challenger in 2020 who believes in free trade, limited government and economic freedom, said outgoing Republican Sen. Jeff Flake.
“I do,” Flake of Arizona responded Sunday when asked if Trump needs an opponent from the right.
“It would be a tough go in a Republican primary. The Republican Party is the Trump party right now. But that’s not to say it will stay that way, ” he said.
Flake, a frequent Trump critic, is retiring from the Senate because he said his traditional conservative views and temperament aren’t accepted in the age of Trump.
“I couldn’t be reelected in my party right now,” Flake told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Trump has already announced his 2020 slogan – “Keep America Great!” – in a wide-ranging speech in Saturday in Pennsylvania where he also bashed the media, touted new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and suggested imposing the death penalty on drug dealers.
“We should never normalize this kind of behavior, particularly from the president of the United States,” Flake said. “So I think it does real damage long term to the political culture. It really does.”
Flake this week is traveling to New Hampshire, the first presidential primary state, which stoked speculation of a possible presidential bid against Trump.
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Then what would the Democrats do?
Another one who is just not going to go away. Not smart enough to realize just how out of step he is with real America.
Come on, Flake, go for it. Put your money where your mouth is.
“Flake this week is traveling to New Hampshire, the first presidential primary state, which stoked speculation of a possible presidential bid against Trump.”
Jeff Flake running against Donald Trump; essentially a sequel to “Bambi versus Godzilla”.
He’s a Deeper is there ever was one!
I still say McQueeg isn't really sick and is just trying to dodge the indictments.
Oh please PLEASE run, Saint Jeffy! It will be so much fun kicking your snarky pathetic @ss!!!!
McCain would be the ideal GROPElite candidate.
He’d run a better campaign from the grave than he did in 2008.
Get ready for Candidate Flake. Coming soon to a presidential primary near you.
Yeah and football players need a tackling dummy.
It seems like the jokes write themselves on these dumb Sunday morning talk shows, don’t they?
So, basically, he’s Kasich ...with table manners
Flake has chit for brains.
He isn’t running for re-election in Arizona because his polling numbers for the Senate seat there are in the single digits.
And yet, he thinks he can unseat the incumbent president, a member of his own party?
The idiot Flake is delusional.
He can’t be reelected in his party right now because he votes to the left of nancy Pelosi. That has bothing to do with Trump.
like who... you??? feh
AZ is being set up right now to elect McSallycain as the next Flake.
“I couldn’t be reelected or in my party right now,” Flake told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Or ever again...
Every person in that picture is a POS hated loser.
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