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Former MA governor Bill Weld announces plan to challenge President Trump for Republican nomination
The Washington Post ^
| February 15, 2019
| David Weigel
Posted on 02/15/2019 6:36:01 AM PST by Trump20162020
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld told an audience in New Hampshire Friday that he will try to take on President Trump in the 2020 Republican presidential primary, offering the first high-profile challenge to the president’s reelection effort.
Weld, 73, said he would seek to determine over the coming months if he can raise enough money to continue his challenge of the president. He said he would run on a traditional Republican agenda of fiscal responsibility and provide a stylistic contrast to Trump.
“It is time for all people of good will — and our country is filled with people of good will — to take a stand and plant a flag,” Weld said during a speech Friday at a Politics & Eggs breakfast in Bedford, N.H.
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To: Trump20162020
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:36:30 AM PST
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Trump20162020
Mitt Romney Jr.????? Without the business experience and an even more washed up politician?
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:38:21 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
To: Trump20162020
Ultimate RINO from Smithtown NY.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:39:15 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
To: Vigilanteman
To: Trump20162020
Weld will be like a gnat. Mildly annoying but really nothing to worry about.
To: Trump20162020
Is this the best the RINO wing of the party can do?
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:40:13 AM PST
by
rdl6989
To: Trump20162020
He’s a stalking horse for Milt.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:41:44 AM PST
by
OKSooner
(Whichever one you already have, go buy the other one and then you'll have both.)
To: Trump20162020
Weld, 73, said he would seek to determine over the coming months if he can raise enough money to continue his challenge of the president. Adding the part left out:
If so, then, once enough money has been raised, quit the race and pocket the cash!
Campaigning, like crime, pays!
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:42:17 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
To: Trump20162020
This guy must know he doesn’t have a chance. Looking for another minute in the spotlight I guess.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:43:18 AM PST
by
be-baw
To: Trump20162020
He was so good for MA his first term. Went wacko like the rest of the GOP pols in MA. Seriously alcoholic, less than zero threat to Trump.
To: Alas Babylon!
Sounds like a good retirement plan.
To: Vigilanteman
Old money. Signers of the Declaration descendant (William Floyd). After being governor of Massachusetts he tried for governor of NY and failed.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:43:58 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
To: Trump20162020
Hmm, might help make DEMS look like total loons
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:47:55 AM PST
by
Bulwinkle
(Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
To: Trump20162020
Roflol - well that will be over before it begins !
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:50:18 AM PST
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: Trump20162020
The 2020 Martin O’Malley nothing more.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:51:06 AM PST
by
jmaroneps37
(Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
To: rktman
He will be right up there with ‘Zorro the Cockroach’ and the other 600 plus people currently running.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:51:20 AM PST
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: Trump20162020
Guy is a joke. Don’t bother dude.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:51:34 AM PST
by
dforest
(Just shut up Obama. Maybe everyone should just shut up!)
To: Trump20162020
Massachusetts, figures.
Let's give it back to the King.
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posted on
02/15/2019 6:53:09 AM PST
by
Mouton
(The media is the enemy of the people.)
To: 9YearLurker
Haha, you wrote EXACTLY what I was thinking. A Drunk.
Definitely a better governor than Mittens, think something happened to him when he jumped into the Charles River, never been the same.
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