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Republicans Are Terrified Donald Trump Will Win the GOP Nomination and Lose to Joe Biden

When Donald Trump was on the point of announce his 2024 candidacy for president, he undoubtedly anticipated the response to be deafening—however in a great way. Ticker tape parades thrown in cities throughout the nation. Evangelical ministers devoting complete sermons to him. Throngs of individuals lined up outdoors of Mar-a-Lago to see him within the flesh and thank him for his service. Even the haters and losers would agree that this was one of the best factor to occur to America in a protracted, very long time.

Sadly for the previous man, that’s not precisely how issues have panned out. As an alternative of being graced by shows of overwhelming admiration, Trump has needed to resort to threats to try to get Republicans to endorse him. As an alternative of calling Trump “God’s present to man,” males of the fabric are working for the hills. And as a substitute of seeing in him somebody who may simply beat Joe Biden and assist the GOP retake the White Home, conservatives are terrified one other Trump nomination will doom them on the poll field come November 2024.

“I don’t assume it’s truthful to name Donald Trump a broken candidate,” Eric Levine, a prime Republican fundraiser, advised Politico. “He’s a metastasizing most cancers who if he’s not stopped goes to destroy the get together. Donald Trump is a loser…And he’s in all probability the one Republican within the nation, if not the one individual within the nation, who can’t beat Joe Biden.” As Levine and different Republicans have famous, an enormous, not-at-all unfounded worry is {that a} crowded GOP subject for the get together’s nomination will result in a vote-split that might profit Trump significantly. And in line with Politico, that’s led to some uncomfortable conversations.

A few of these prime Republicans are assembly with potential candidates and telling them that in the event that they wish to run, they need to by all means accomplish that—however that they need to even be ready to drop out nicely earlier than voting begins with the intention to be sure that the GOP places their finest candidate ahead towards Biden…Main donors who’ve spoken with the top-non-Trump contenders like Nikki Haley, Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence say that each one get it, that none of them want to play the spoiler and are conscious of the hazards to the get together, if not the nation, of a Trump Redux.

“Does Mike Pence actually need his legacy to be that he received 4 % of the vote and helped [elect] Donald Trump?” requested one adviser to a serious Republican giver. “Identical goes for [Mike] Pompeo, similar goes for [Nikki] Haley. They wish to get traction, in fact, however there’s a increased motivation to drag out extra shortly primarily based on what it might imply for the nation and the get together.”

But if the Haleys and Pompeos of the world find yourself working, they’re doing so to win, and regardless of what they inform donors now, as soon as they begin getting a heat reception on the stump it may be onerous to cease.

For his half, Trump seems to know that extra candidates can solely assist him, therefore outright encouraging Haley to run. (The exception, in fact, is Ron DeSantis, whose potential candidacy seems to petrify the ex-president, therefore his suggestion this week that the Florida governor groomed teenage ladies whereas working as a historical past instructor at a Georgia highschool.) One other not insignificant downside dealing with Republicans who wish to hold Trump as distant from the White Home as humanly doable? That they don’t know whom to throw their weight behind to beat Trump within the main. The newest polling places DeSantis neck and neck with the ex-president, however as Politico notes, the governor “is untested on the nationwide stage, and there are persistent whispers that he will be clumsy concerning the regular give-and-take of politics.” Whereas a former Trump adviser advised the outlet that “the good hope for DeSantis is that he breaks by shortly, and that convinces everybody else there isn’t a path,” it clearly stays to be seen whether or not that may occur.

As for a general-election matchup, Republicans might worry Trump can’t beat Biden—and if 2020 was any indication, he can’t. However a Washington Submit–ABC Information ballot launched this week steered it might be a toss-up, with 48% of registered voters saying they might go for Trump versus 45% for Biden—a spot that falls inside the margin of error. Which is clearly worrisome from a fate-of-humanity perspective.

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