Posted on 07/20/2022 7:48:10 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Former Trump acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday on “CNN Tonight” that he hoped former President Donald Trump doesn’t run for president in 2024.
Anchor Laura Coates asked, “If he were to run for re-election yet again, we don’t know if he intends to do that. If he is the RNC nominee, do you intend to vote for him?”
Mulvaney said, “I am one of those Republicans who hopes the former President Trump doesn’t run. In all fairness, we don’t need him anymore. He changed our party. We have a lot of folks, a new generation of folks, Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, go down the list of folks who could give us the same that Donald Trump gave without the baggage. As a Republican, I am thinking if the election were on today and Joe Biden was the nominee for the Democrats or Kamala Harris or Gavin Newsom, there is probably only one mainstream Republican who could lose, and that’s Donald Trump. Knowing what I know, I would be hard pressed to support Donald Trump again.”
He added, “I think we moved beyond Donald Trump clearing the field. I think that is one thing that the January 6 committee has accomplished.”
He concluded, “To the extent they wanted to wound him politically, I think that happened. There has been polling data recently, for the first time, says that a majority of Republican primary voters would prefer somebody other than Donald Trump. That’s a big change over the course ever the last six or eight weeks.”
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Who? STFU.
...Mulvaney said Tuesday on “CNN Tonight”...
That says it all right there...
Fake baggage brought to you by fake news.
Their plan is to push Desantis over Trump, then if DeSantis gets the nomination, systematically destroy him.
Yeah right.
Mick Mulvaney’s an establishment toady - a sycophant to phonies. Who gives a damn what he thinks...
Exactly, but another exercise in futility by the Left against Trump.
The Left is outnumbered by Trump. Not so much with DeSantis.
Too many Republican elites think they can get another neocon into office. The ship has sailed awhile ago .
That’s not the plan. The plan is to convince DeSantis that he’s next in line and that he has more support than Trump. DeSantis then gets into the race to pull from Trump and they can all get behind Pence Iscariot.
Just keep running your mouth Mickey Mouse but in a little while you and the rest of the Quislings will be just a memory.
Review commie-woke-progressive-dnc-evil(my descriptor)-left response to defeat. Nothing remotely close to civil discourse is offered. Hence, President Trump in THE MAN for THIS TIME.
We're miles beyond a politics-as-usual fight for this God-given, last hope for liberty.
Nice way to give the corrupt democrat press the finger...
Pence won’t get any votes.
Aaaaaaand THAT’S how you get on CNN.
Didn’t Mulvaney leave his post because he got caught up in some unethical stuff or something like that?
So, I’m thinking that Mulvaney does some dirt, maybe not enough to get in real trouble but dirt nonetheless, gets called out, President Trump doesn’t want any of that nonsense near him, and Mulvaney is gone. And now he’s mad.
Because if I’m not mistaken, he was pretty Pro-Trump when he first took his job with the administration.
Another POS politician that thinks he can get away with whatever he wants.
The fact he went on CNN to say this is all we need to know about him.
The thing is...Trump appointed this guy to two important places in his Administration. So either this guy is right, or Trump is pretty crappy at picking subordinates. That latter thing concerns me more than “mean tweets.”
Pence is their guy. They’ve got him at 9% right now. He can’t beat Trump but if thry can get Trump and DeSantis to do battle he can have an outside chance at winning. That is definitely their play.
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