As failed former president Donald Trump draws closer to securing the 2024 Republican presidential nomination with each caucus and primary win, many in the GOP are terrified that he will drag down the ticket in the November and lead to an “electoral bloodbath,” according to Jacqueline Alemany of the Washington Post.
Alemany was a guest on Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” and she noted that Trump’s recent interference in a proposed border deal has enraged some Republicans in Congress.
“The House was pretty quiet last week as they were on recess. We’re going to be getting more incoming on that this week, especially after Trump’s, you know, trouncing of Nikki Haley in Iowa and then his victory in New Hampshire, where he is becoming a bigger and bigger voice that Republicans can’t really ignore and are starting to be — or will expect to be punished by Trump if they start to speak out against him and go against some of the things that he is advocating for.”
With Trump continuing to make negative headlines with his numerous legal problems, Alemany added, party leaders are getting more worried.
“But there are the same concerns that we saw in 2022 after the disappointing red wave, as everyone had expected, that ultimately didn’t materialize. Now, Speaker Johnson has essentially a two-vote majority where it’s nearly impossible to get anything through, especially if Trump touches it and advises members not to vote for it.”
“So I think that, you know, Republicans understand that they’re headed for another potential electoral bloodbath, but it’s this inevitable thing that they’ve sort of come to accept so long as Trump is the leader of the party,. That’s why you’re seeing retirements; people just sort of taking a bow and these nods of resignation.”
But will anyone in the GOP try to stop Trump? That doesn’t seem likely, either, despite the fact that he could be poison with voters.
“There are concerns, but I don’t see anybody doing anything about it.”
