GOP senators are skeptical damaged Trump can win in 2024
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The damaging revelations of the Jan. 6 committee hearings are fueling skepticism among Senate Republicans that former President Trump can win the GOP nomination in 2024 or even run for another term in the White House.
One Republican senator, who requested anonymity to comment on the former president, said the “cascade” of embarrassing details about Trump’s conduct in the weeks before Jan. 6, 2021, and during the attack on the U.S. Capitol will seriously damage his political viability ahead of the 2024 election.
“I don’t think he’ll run again, and that’s a good thing, because of the whole cascade of events,” the senator said, referring to testimony by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent who refused to drive him to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Hutchinson, an aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, is now cooperating with a Justice Department investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, according to media reports.
A second GOP senator, who also requested anonymity, said the overwhelming majority of Republican senators don’t want Trump to be the party’s nominee for president again.
“I could count on one hand the number of Republican senators who want Donald Trump to be our nominee,” said the lawmaker, adding, “I could count it on one finger.”
If Trump doesn’t run that will be the probable reason why, not that he gives a damn about Senators’ preferences, but that he shares their worry, only in his case it is fear. Trump can’t bear being a loser. This may be why we are living through his “stolen election” circus. He invented it as cover. Knowing he has a Pied Piper control over ninety percent or so of his voters, he invented it believing he would get away with it. He sure has. But even Trump couldn’t sell a “stolen election” twice. He won’t risk having to try.
