Donald Trump is training his fire on Ron DeSantis, with more than a half-dozen others languishing in polls. It's enough to spark heartburn among Hill Republicans.
The GOP presidential primary is looking more and more like 2016 — a rerun that plenty of Hill Republicans are watching with heartburn.
By contrast, the contingent of Capitol Hill Trump backers like what they see so far — the former president going after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a crowded field splits the anti-Trump vote. “When you talk to Iowans, shit-talking other candidates will not get you success,” he added. Alluding to his state’s farmer-heavy electorate, Nunn said: “We don’t necessarily pick the winner, but we’re pretty good at smelling bullshit.”
The numbers haven’t yet reached the chaos of the 2016 primary, when Trump dispatched more than a dozen rivals. But it’s getting close. Which explains why Trump’s backers argue that every new candidate only makes his path to victory that much easier.Carlos Gimenez For some Republicans who haven’t yet endorsed, the Trump-DeSantis tussling amounts to a potential strategic error because it focuses the primary on red-meat, base-pleasing topics — from the pandemic to purported “woke” culture. Meanwhile, the sort of kitchen-table issues that tend to dominate general elections are getting more focus from the underdogs., a centrist from a battleground district, is one of those warning candidates need to have a broader appeal in the primary.
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