Donald Trump might not be the 2024 Republican nominee for president, however neither will New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu.
Still, if the Granite State Republican have been actually desirous about stopping Trump from changing into the Republican Party nominee for president in 2024, he would do extra than simply discuss.
He would run towards him within the New Hampshire Republican presidential main. But he gained’t. Trump would beat him.
Sununu, 48, is extra snug commenting than confronting. The identical is true of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a fellow Republican average and Trump critic who introduced earlier that he wouldn’t run for president.
Hogan, in anticipation of a crowded area of Republican presidential candidates, stated he didn’t need to be a part of “another multicar pileup that could potentially help Mr. Trump recapture the nomination.”
It is an effective excuse, nevertheless it won’t cease others from working in what is predicted to be a big area of Republicans, headed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who will problem Trump for the Republican nomination.
Along these traces, Sununu stated that if the New Hampshire main have been held at this time, DeSantis would win it, not Trump. “There is no doubt about that in my mind,” he stated.
DeSantis, who has but to announce his candidacy, is predicted to go to New Hampshire within the coming days the place the “anybody but Trump” crowd of Republicans, headed by Sununu, will give him a heat reception.
Nevertheless, Donald Trump is the person to beat and the extra crowded the GOP main area is the higher it’s for the previous president.
Trump leads the sphere by a big margin in all of the polls with DeSantis coming in a distant second.
As issues stand now, DeSantis has one of the best shot of besting Trump within the GOP presidential primaries.
But DeSantis, who has a strong file of accomplishment in Florida, would ideally must take Trump on face-to-face in tv debates to defeat him. In a area of eight or 10 candidates or extra, DeSantis might get misplaced within the crowd.
“The more the merrier,” Trump has repeatedly stated of the checklist of Republicans who’re speaking about working towards him.
So far solely Nikki Haley, Trump’s former ambassador to the United Nation, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy have formally introduced.
While Trump appears to have misplaced a few of his 2016 swagger, he’s nonetheless the person to beat in 2024, regardless of all of the controversy and investigations he has been by way of since leaving the White House in 2020 and taking his loss to Joe Biden so badly.
Donald Trump just isn’t a superb loser. He is barely a superb winner.
While he gained the overwhelming help of the conservative Republicans on the CPAC convention in Maryland final weekend, his usually doomsday speech was in sharp distinction to the highly effective speech on his achievements in Florida given by DeSantis at Ronald Reagan Presidential Library the following day.
“We’ve witnessed a fantastic American exodus from states ruled by leftist politicians imposing leftist ideology and delivering poor outcomes and also you’ve seen large features in states like Florida who’re governing based on the tried and true ideas that President Ronald Reagan held expensive.
Speaking of the COVID-19 pandemic, DeSantis stated, “When common sense suddenly became an uncommon virtue, Florida stood as a refuge of sanity, a citadel of freedom for people throughout the United States, and indeed throughout the world, we refused to let our state descend into some type of Faustian dystopia where people’s right were curtailed and their livelihoods destroyed.”
Trump, however, spoke darkly of World War III and the top of the nation if he’s not elected president once more. “I am the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent World War III.”
Sounding like a Biblical prophet out of the Old Testament, Trump stated, “In 2016, I declared: I am your voice. Today, I add: I am your warrior. I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”
Retribution? Scary stuff, scary occasions.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
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