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Posted on 08/05/2017 12:48:31 PM PDT by springwater13
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 Pence’s 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 Trump’s 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 weren’t involved.
The would-be candidates are cultivating some of the party’s 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.
Asked about those Republicans who seem to be eyeing 2020, a White House spokeswoman, Lindsay Walter, fired a warning shot: “The president is as strong as he’s ever been in Iowa, and every potentially ambitious Republican knows that.”
But in interviews with more than 75 Republicans at every level of the party, elected officials, donors and strategists expressed widespread uncertainty about whether Mr. Trump would be on the ballot in 2020 and little doubt that others in the party are engaged in barely veiled contingency planning.
“They see weakness in this president,” said Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona. “Look, it’s not a nice business we’re in.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
IMHO they are not going anywhere. Look at what is happening to Jeff Flake.
The devil don't bother his own.
They can try if they want. Trump will win again.
Sounds like more wishful thinking to me.
If Trump said to hell with in 2020 there is not a single one of these sleaze bags I would consider. The GOP is set to win big but the establishment branch is so damned stupid they can’t see the forest for the trees.
I say let 16 or 17 of them run. Maybe Jeb wants to run again.
The NY Times with another negative, anti-Trump whispering narrative
surprise, surprise.
The Times has nothing else to talk about
Tom Cotton? No. He is working with trump on the ‘you can come here if you speak English’ bill. He is a veteran military officer sensible enough to know he can’t face up to the resources behind the anti trump people.
Sensible enough to know the anti trump force is against 63million American voters.
I think no. Bs.
Search is your friend: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3574784/posts
Very Fake News. Just consider the source, the nytimes.
The traitorous ny slimes . . my, whatta surprise
FOBastards
This is click bait for those with “cosmopolitan bias”. If the NYT focused on reporting news instead of creating news they wouldn’t have “death panels” laying off newsroom staff. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
As Rush said many times, he’s taking more incoming than any human being alive all because he wants to make america great again. Now, Mueller with the help of a bipartisan congress is going after his family and business unrelated to anything Russia. They are looking for any error he made in his taxes and going to indict!
I wouldn’t blame Trump at all to saying to hell with everyone and opting out of 2020 to play golf or spend more time with his family or go back to running his business. Who needs this garbage?
He wants to stop illegal immigration. He wants to promote fair trade and strengthen U.S. industry. He wants to have a strong military. What in the name of our dear Lord and Savior do these people want??!!
The NYT cockroachs cannot talk a DemocRAT because that would make them guilty of “aiding and abetting” (chuckle). Hard to believe that there are fools that still pay money for this fish wrapper....
NYT = Not Yielding to Truth
Don’t believe these Lying Leftist Media outlets that proved themselves during the 2016 campaign to be operatives of the DNC and intentional liars. They are presumed to be lying and we should presume what they publish is a lie. The presumption can only be rebutted with the outlet providing clear and convincing evidence they are not lying.
We should be mostly publishing the truth on FR, not the lies, and as much good news as possible to bolster morale. We should find and post reliable sources that have already deconstructed the lie and replaced it with the truth and with a headline that says the truth. We need much more of that on FR IMO. The key is the headline and the first few sentences because not everyone has time to drill down. The endless stream of negative, lying headlines sabotages our purpose IMO.
They want the Uniparty in charge.
more whistling past the graveyard
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