Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo… For the 2024 US presidential race, Republicans don’t have to fear a vacuum, it’s rather the overflow that awaits them. However, none of these putative candidates have come out publicly to date.
Former US President Donald Trump thus remains the only official candidate for his party’s nomination to date. And he doesn’t intend to fade away so easily if he were beaten by the competition.
Invited to the microphone of conservative presenter Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, he effectively refused to play the primary party to the end, excluding himself to support a priori a possible challenger if the latter were to win in this partisan vote.
“It depends,” he responded, according to comments reported by the Washington Post. “It depends on who the candidate is.” Does this mean, therefore, that one or the other of his colleagues finds favor in his eyes? We do not advance further on this point in view of the rest of Donald Trump’s statements. By evoking the names agitated by public rumor, he rather made a wholesale price, signaling the ingratitude of the competition, believing that no Republican figure should take precedence over him. “That I would say yes, but I know life, and I know how politics works,” he slipped in a lamenting tone.
Donald Trump then studied these files on a case-by-case basis. With a red thread: everyone’s debt to him. “You know, I helped all these people,” he remarked: “I took Mike (Pompeo, his former Secretary of Defense, Editor’s Note) out of nowhere… And it seems to me that ‘he said he would never campaign against the president.
“A microcosm of even meaner life”
And he wouldn’t be the only one to go back on his word. Donald Trump thus recalled that Nikki Haley, whom he had sent to the UN as ambassador of the United States – and will most likely announce her candidacy on February 15 – had promised “many times” that she would not seek not to confront him in a primaries.
However, she reportedly recently polled him over the phone to get his opinion on a hypothetical change. “I told her to listen to her heart,” recalled High Lord Donald Trump … before adding: “But Nikki suffers from a very tough illness. She’s overly ambitious.” “She couldn’t stay in her place,” he asked again.
“Time goes by and they want to start, because they are ambitious,” he continued, to later philosophize: “And politics is a microcosm of life, even more unpleasant.”
The former head of state wanted to calm down: “But you know, everyone is very far in the polls.” The most recent opinion polls prove him right. Thus, according to the Morning Consult poll, carried out nationwide between last Saturday and Monday, he dominates the race with 48% of the projections… Against 31% of his only real opponent to date, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis Tears
The former president of the United States, of course, didn’t forget to shoot some arrows at him, too. While the latter was triumphantly re-elected during the partial exams A few months ago, while the candidates most associated with the billionaire used to be defeated, Donald Trump said: “Ron DeSantis was elected because of me.”
“Do you remember that I had nothing. He was dead. He was going to give up. He came to me and he begged me, he begged me to support him, ”he said, according to what he highlighted. The hill. The same medium even points out that Donald Trump claimed that Ron DeSantis was crying while he begged for his help.
However, the former president’s possible rivals have been cleaner with him. Thus, Larry Hogan, former governor of Maryland, although he was approached to integrate future candidates and not hide his dislike for Donald Trump, affirmed that he would not fail him if necessary, as he has reported here in New York Times: “I will support the candidate, whoever he is.” “But I don’t think it’s him,” she slipped, however.
Source: BFM TV
