The Republican Party is making the transition to the Trump faction. But radicalization could cost the “Grand Old Party” the 2024 US election.
Washington – Hardly had Liz Cheney lost the Wyoming area codeshe brought up a possible candidacy in the US presidential election in two years’ time: “I’m thinking about it and will make a decision in the coming months,” Cheney said in response to a question NBC-TV presenter. It would be a hopeless endeavor.
Finally, the 56-year-old failed in a duel against her opponent Harriet Hageman and thus lost her seat in the US House of Representatives. As the daughter of Dick Cheney, one of the most influential Republicans and arguably the most powerful Vice President in US history, you’d think winning a primary would be easy for Liz Cheney. But she has her reckoning without donald trump did.
Because unlike Cheney, Harriet Hageman is an ardent supporter of Trump. She stands for them Republican Party, which Trump has played a major role in shaping since 2016. Because despite being out of office for two years, the former president still has plenty of influence within the party – but that could be the undoing of Republicans.
Republican Party: Trump loyalists are welcome
While radical politicians are now preferred within the party, the Republican Party has had success in Democratic strongholds such as Maryland or Massachusetts in the past when they fielded moderate candidates. But Republican voters have nominated supporters of Donald Trump in several Democratic states, including Maryland and Connecticut.
Massachusetts faces a test next month as Republican voters choose between a Trump-backed conservative and a more moderate Republican for the gubernatorial nominee for the Midterms 2022 decide. However, Liz Cheney’s defeat in Wyoming may have already served as an omen.
The US wants “a Republican Party that abides by the rules of democracy”
“It can’t go on like this,” former Connecticut Rep. Christopher Shays, a moderate Republican and Trump critic, said in an interview with the newspaper Associated Press. Shays believes that while many of the Trump nominees will win over the Republican base, they will not win over the general public: “Many of the Trump candidates who won the primary will lose the general election. And there are many disaffected Republicans in office now who believe the Senate is now in danger of remaining Democratic.”
Politicians who oppose Donald Trump would “either lose or take early retirement. […] Where does that lead to?” asked the journalist Jeet Heer in the podcast “Time of Monsters‘ of the US magazine the nation. In the future, there will be “fewer and fewer Liz Cheneys” within the party, Heer said.
One must recognize that “the principles Cheney stands for have little future in the Republican Party.” However, you want in the United States a “Republican Party that abides by the rules of democracy”.
Republican Party: Ron DeSantis could run in 2024 instead of Donald Trump
The fact is that the US presidential election in the so-called “swing states” is decided by swing voters. People who ultimately did not feel represented by Trump’s policies or who are put off by the radical rhetoric of the Republicans are unlikely to tick the box at the “Grand Old Party” in November 2024. The problem, however, is that the Republican Party is now developed more and more into the party of Donald Trump.
“Winning a Republican primary is one thing, with the issue of voter fraud. But in the actual election, swing voters find such candidates rather repulsive,” Gunner Ramer told the conservative think tank The Bulwark opposite to tagesschau.de. Instead, Trump loyalists would reduce the election chances of the Democratic Party even increase in the swing states.
If Ramer has his way, in two years Republicans will not be betting on Donald Trump, but on Ron DeSantis. The ambitious Florida governor was once touted as Trump’s future running mate, could finally steal the show. It is questionable whether DeSantis, himself arch-conservative and popular with many Trump supporters, could also convince those who are undecided. (nak)
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