As Trump's legal woes and political baggage mount, many top Republican officials, candidates, and donors are anxious to move on. Bernie Moreno is not one of them.
In 2016, Bernie Moreno sounded like a lot of Republicans who were aghast at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president.
Six years later, of course, many of Trump’s fiercest critics have become his strongest allies. But as his legal woes and political baggage mount, many top Republican officials, candidates, and donors are anxious to move on. In a recent podcast interview, Moreno went so far as to compare migrants crossing the southern border now to the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks. The Moreno campaign did not respond to a request for comment regarding his past comments about Trump and immigration.
Now facing a GOP primary, Justice is more effusive than ever in his praise and support of Trump. He called his criminal indictment in Manhattan court a “travesty” that shows “the lack of respect… toward the commitment and accomplishments that President Trump has given us.” He even extended a thank you on behalf of West Virginia to the Trump family, “especially my huntin’ buddies Don Jr. and Eric.
For many Republicans, this is unwelcome news. In 2020 and 2022, GOP failures to win Senate majorities were largely chalked up to Trump’s involvement. Ahead of 2024, with a Senate map that is stacked in the GOP’s favor, party brass are trying to minimize the ex-president’s influence on primaries—and perhaps thought political dynamics would help them.
That foundational dynamic of GOP politics may complicate a number of potential campaigns—or prompt hopefuls to reconsider running altogether. Recently, Politico reported that top GOP recruits for the House and Senate are hesitant to run if Trump will be at the top of the 2024 ticket. But McCormick, as non-Trumpy a major candidate as the GOP has seen in recent years, might not be able to survive a primary. In fact, he already has not: In 2022, he was defeated by Trump-backed Mehmet Oz, who went on to lose to now-Sen. John Fetterman, as Trump dinged him for being a “Wall Street Republican.”, McCormick said he did not support Trump in 2016, did not buy into 2020 election conspiracies, placed blame at Trump’s feet for Jan.
Unlike many Republicans who dislike Trump but praise his economic policies, Tuttle has actually expressed doubt on the ex-president’s record. “It’s a mixed bag,” Tuttle said in an interview in January 2019. “I think his policies certainly have an impact on the market for better or for, in some cases, worse.”
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