Politico: Are The Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode?

[brooklynite]

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Will this go down as the week that the grand plan to deny Donald Trump the nomination fell apart?

For months, high-level Republican lawmakers, donors and strategists eager to block Trump have described, in separate conversations with me, an endgame to the presidential primary.


When it becomes clear in the early state and national polling who is consolidating support, the most influential figures with ties to the lagging candidates will stage a sort of political intervention and tell them it’s time to quit and rally to the strongest alternative to Trump.

Such a plot always struck me as a bit far-fetched, for starters because politicians aren’t known for putting party ahead of self. Yet the appetite among elite Republicans to move past Trump was and is so immense I thought there could at least be a do-the-right-thing effort.

Yet as spring turns to summer, traditionally the period when presidential hopefuls consider whether they’re gaining any traction, this vision seems more fantasy than strategy.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/26/are-the-anti-trump-gop-forces-starting-to-implode-00098934

[walkingman]

1. A tiger can't change it's stripes - never gonna happen. They simply do not care.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. I think they rally around Governor Youngkin.

Some consider him “moderate” and sane.
Could flip Virginia.
Plus they’d love to play off of the word “young” facing 80 year old Biden.
My wild prediction for the GOP ticket is Youngkin/Haley. An all Confederate ticket.
If not Youngkin, it will be Sununu.

[Beakybird]

3. I really think that Trump's legal troubles including civil suits are going to implode his numbers

I think Youngkin is more plausible than Trump making it to the general election with

1 Further damages in E Jean Carroll suit.
2 Election workers from Florida civil suit
3 Capitol police officers civil suit
4 Indictment for Jan 6 insurrection
5 Indictment for stealing classified docs
6 Indictment in Fulton County for election interference
7 Indictment in NY for Stormy Daniels stuff
8 Multimillion dollar lawsuit against Trump Organization in NY for cheating on taxes which might dissolve the Trump Organization in NY state.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. The GOP left them years ago. They still humping that carcass?

[RKP5637]

5. Yep!!! n/t