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Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney Tuesday advised former President Donald Trump not to run again for President in 2024, saying Republicans “don’t need him anymore,” Washington Examiner reports.
Speaking
during an interview with CNN, Mulvaney said that a “new generation” of
Republicans can support the same policies as Trump without the “baggage.”
Mulvaney said
he would be “hard pressed” to vote for Trump in 2024 and that he believes the
House January 6 committee has badly wounded Trump politically, a move which
clears the way for other Republicans to enter the 2024 presidential primary
race, according to Washington Examiner.
Mulvaney hopes Trump doesn't run
"I'm
one of those Republicans who hope the former president, Trump, doesn't
run," he said.
"In all
fairness, we don't need him anymore. He changed our party. We have a lot of
folks, a new generation, Ron Desantis, Mike Pence, Mike Pompeo, Tim Scott,
Nikki Haley, go down the list, of folks who can give us the same policies, the
same energy, the same defense of the middle class, that Donald Trump gave us
without the baggage," Mulvaney said.
Trump is the only GOP candidate Joe Biden and Democrats can beat
The former White
House aide who was also a onetime Republican congressman for South Carolina
said his former boss was the only GOP presidential candidate that President Joe
Biden or whomever the Democrats nominate in 2024 can beat.
"I
mean, face it, as a Republican, I'm sitting here tonight thinking to myself if
the election were today and Joe Biden was the nominee for the Democrats, or
Kamala Harris, or Gavin Newsom, there's probably only one mainstream Republican
who can lose. And that's Donald Trump," Mulvaney said, Washington Examiner
reported.
Mulvaney
said the House January 6 committee investigating the insurrection by Trump
supporters have done irreparable damage to Trump’s chances in 2024, adding that
since the committee began the televised hearings in June, “top-tier”
Republicans have begun to consider challenging Trump in the presidential
primary.
"Knowing
what I know now, I would be really hard-pressed to support Trump again,"
Mulvaney said, adding that he thinks "we've moved beyond Donald Trump
clearing the field" of GOP challengers, Washington Examiner reported.
Mulvaney
noted that Trump is unlikely to face any jail time as a result of his actions
or inactions, but added that the investigation by the panel have mortally
wounded Trump’s 2024 White House ambitions.