The Republican Party’s fear of Trump’s candidacy in the 2024 election
According to IRNA’s report on Monday, citing “CNN” news channel, a large number of members of the Republican Party are openly encouraging the candidates to enter the 2024 elections, while some members of this party are worried about the return of “Donald Trump”. It has increased especially in the midst of his criminal revelations about the incident of the attack on the Congress building.
Dan Crenshaw, a member of the Republican Conservative Study Committee, said the party has many good options and hoped they would all enter the race. This Republican from the state of Texas added that I don’t think Trump will be the leader of the party if he decides to run for president for the third time.
South Dakota Republican Senator John Thune also told CNN that there are other attractive Republican candidates besides Trump in 2024. His words echo the recent statements of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who predicted that the party’s field for the 2024 election would be crowded.
Dusty Johnson, another Republican representative of South Dakota, emphasized: I have no doubt that we will have many candidates to compete. He then continued that although Trump is leading according to the polls, everything does not always go according to the polls.
In the meantime, some members of the party, who did not want to be named, expressed concern about the legal problems facing Trump and said that this is why the Republican Party looks at other members.
Crenshaw also stressed that it would be too bad for the party to nominate someone who is currently indicted.
Mitt Romney, a Utah state senator and one of the well-known anti-Trump figures in the Republican Party, who voted to convict the former president in both of his impeachment trials, said: “I do not support Donald Trump for the presidency or anything else.” I think he has hurt our party in the past and will continue to do so.
The effort of the Republican Party to introduce the right candidates while the investigations of the select committee of the Senate on the riot of January 6, 2021 continue, and so far it has revealed the damaging details of Trump’s role in the attack on the Congress.
Dan Newhouse, a representative of Washington and one of the 10 Republicans in the House of Representatives who voted to impeach Trump for inciting a riot, said that he does not support Trump’s candidacy, saying that they should see which candidate has the best ideas.
The Republican Study Committee, the largest conservative group in the US Congress, hosted a number of prominent figures of the party last year, including Mike Pompeo, Senator Tom Cotton and Nikki Haley, and offered them to run for the 2024 election. Recently, in a meeting with Mike Pence, the former vice president, he asked him to prepare for the nomination. Pence is also said to be actively considering a 2024 presidential bid to gain a foothold in the party that Trump previously destroyed.
In a closed-door meeting Wednesday, the GOP Study Committee thanked Pence for his actions on Jan. 6 and others encouraged him to run for president in 2024, according to those in attendance. .
Nebraska Republican Representative Don Bacon said about Pence: I am his supporter, but I don’t want to force him to run for office, but I like his character.
According to the results of the latest polls, Donald Trump is currently ahead of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, whose candidacy has not yet been decided.