Trump’s Former Chief of Staff Shreds 2024 Bid: ‘He’s the Only Republican Who Can Lose’
NY Post torches former president with dismissive coverage
Donald Trump's one-time White House chief of staff disparaged his former boss's announcement Tuesday night that the former president would run again in 2024 to return to the White House.
Meanwhile, one of the big tabloid newspapers back in Trump's original hometown of New York City, belittled and satirized Trump's announcement as essentially unimportant.
Trump announced from his Mar-a-Lago estate and club in Palm Beach, Fla., that he intends to make a third run for president in two years time.
However, unlike years past, many of Trump's fellow Republicans are no longer eager to embrace him after what was a disastrous result for the Republican Party in last week's midterm elections.
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was asked, on-camera, Tuesday night even as the former president was making his announcement, whether that announcement was good for the GOP.
“No, I don’t. Because I think he’s the only Republican who could lose,” Mulvaney said. “If he wins in 2024, now he’s the candidate, he is the likely Republican nominee. Can he be beaten head-to-head by [Florida Gov] Ron DeSantis or [South Carolina Sen] Tim Scott? Sure.
“But it’s not going to be a head-to-head race. There will be five or six other people in the race and he’ll get the 35 percent that really support him and under the winner-take-all primary system, he’ll be the nominee,” Mulvaney added. “But that means the 2024 race is not about Joe Biden or whatever Democrat is on the ticket, not about inflation, not about world events, not about abortion. It will be about Donald Trump, the same thing we saw in 2020. No one voted for Joe Biden. Everybody voted for or against Donald Trump. It was a referendum on him.”
Then Wednesday morning the New York Post reported on Trump's in what can only be described as an incredibly dismissive fashion.
The storied tabloid flagged the Trump story at the very bottom of Page One, with the plain headline, “Florida Man Makes Announcement,” with just a brief article about the Republican's statement deep inside the paper on page 26.
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