Former President Donald Trump increasingly looks unbeatable in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, but some bigwig GOP donors are still trying to find someone to rescue them from the will of their own party's voters.
The Washington Post's Robert Costa, who on Twitter describes these GOP donors as "alarmed" by Trump's resilience in the wake of four criminal indictments, reports that there's a serious effort to draft Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin into the 2024 presidential race.
"Some of the biggest Republican donors in the country will converge next month at the historic Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach for a two-day meeting to rally behind Gov. Glenn Youngkin," writes Costa. "Unofficially, several donors tell me, it will be an opportunity for them to try to push, if not shove, Youngkin into the Republican presidential race."
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Among those urging Youngkin to get into the race are two former Trump administration officials: Attorney General Bill Barr and national security adviser John Bolton, both of whom have said that they do not want their one-time boss to be the party's nominee again next year.
Costa expresses some skepticism that an effort to draft Youngkin would be effective, however, and he describes it as "the latest slapdash scheme in a long search for a standard-bearer and a portrait of the powerlessness so many Republicans feel as Trump plows ahead, shrugging off criminal indictments and outrage over rhetoric they fear is growing dark and dangerous."
