According to two top republican politicians, Donald Trump may not seek reelection in 2020, in spite of already raising millions for his campaign. Chris Christie and Rand Paul are casting doubt on Trump’s desire to remain president.
“If he runs again I would support him, yes, but I’m not so sure what will happen,” Chris Christe, the governor of New Jersey said on the Today show on Friday. Senator Rand Paul also cast doubts over whether President Trump would throw his hat into the presidential ring again and argued Republicans should not merely assume he is running.
“I think no one can stop primaries from happening and there could well be a primary that happens,” Paul said on MSNBC when probed about whether the US could benefit from a Republican party primary in 2020. “Before you even get to that, you need to know, is President Trump running for re-election? I think you won’t know that until you get into sort of – second, third year of his presidency,” he said. Paul said he could not see himself supporting anyone else he did suggest the chance of him supporting a candidate who would end the war in Afghanistan.
“So I see the glass as half full. Doesn’t mean I agree with him on everything,” he said. “You know, there would be people that – if we could end the Afghan war, that’s who I would support. But I don’t think that’s going to be an alternative to President Trump.”
Paul’s sentiments are similar to those expressed by Christie. “Four years is a long time, and especially for someone who has not spent a lifetime in politics, so I think those years affect him differently. So I’m sure the president will make whatever decision is best for him and his family and the country,” said Christie.
Christie and Paul both said that if Trump runs again, he’d have both of their support in a reelection campaign. Not running for a second term would be a highly unconventional move for a sitting president. Only three other presidents have deliberately moved out of the White House after just one term as president. But Trump has invested money in his reelection campaign already.
According to the Centre for Public Integrity, Trump’s re-election campaign committee raised just over $10 million from July to the end of September. The former reality star and real estate mogul held a $35,000-a-plate fundraiser event a few blocks from the White House at his Washington hotel back in June. Trump’s historically early campaigning has seen his campaign accumulate more than $7 million in the first three months of this year via small donations and selling Trump-themed merchandise such as his trademark “Make America Great Again” hats.
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Anyone who thinks TRUMP will not seek re-election hasn’t learned a single thing about the man since he emerged as a Presidential candidate 2.5 years ago.
This guy will be more reluctant to leave the Oval Office than Barry Obola !!! 🙂
DK, I’m having to really struggle trying to support Trump. There’s no question about all the opposition he’s facing. Everything still remains to be seen. It’s questionable at this point how much he can accomplish without getting rid of all the Obama leftovers. Only then can the agenda move forward. But I still have hope.
I told this community many months ago that it would take TRUMP a year to consolidate power. Yeah, it’s in the archives. I also said that investigations into the DNC & the Clinton Crime Family would linger on until next year to maximize political capital for the midterm elections.
That is happening. Now that the propaganda of the Left has run its course; like the Russian Collusion, and the tables have been turned, we will see more and more progress on the TRUMP Agenda, and Mid Term Elections will see new faces in the (Tea Party) GOP to lend him support in both the Senate and the House.
TRUMP will run the table in 2018. 🙂
Even with all of the opposition from sooo many sources trying to distract him, he has managed to accomplish a lot. Three more years of this man will will transform America from a second rate country to a first rate power again with a vibrant economy and an empowered people.
Patriots must organize at the grassroots level to CRUSH the Left while they are on the run; and turn out the NEO CONS. America, the IDEAL that is America is rising. Add your energy to it !!! 🙂
No one gives Trump any slack but doubles down and returns fire. He’ll fight for it…may lose but won’t walk away.
I’d just be satisfied for the certain knowledge to see him make through this term.
PO’d P, my thought on the button. The great orange one has more working against him than any POTUS in my lifetime – not least of which is that he’s obese and ripe for a heart attack. He’s not his father, Fred, who was a relatively slender man. And that man, though he died @ 93 did so after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for 6 years. What the Donald has done by taking on this ignoble job is to shorten his lifespan drastically. And all this I’ve stated has nothing at all to do with the politics of the issue of a 2nd term. To be blunt – if Trump doesn’t do something to improve his physical condition, he’s a goner.
DB;
I’m having the same problem when it comes to Trump.
I’d like to think he is munching around the edges and saving
the ‘middle of the Oreo’ for the last savory bite, which would
be the Obuttho team and the Hitlery team.
I hope he plays his cards carefully enough to drop all
the guilty parties like a giant display of domino’s.
But alas, this may just be….wishful thinking.
Few Republicans thought Trump’s campaign would gain him the White House. But he’s there now.
If Trump in uninterested in a second term, then why are there already moves to prepare for a second run?
I think he is probably the only Republican who is charismatic enough to beat any Democrat. Hopefully he will run for reelection.
PFFT!….i’m looking forward to his THIRD term.