On Thursday morning, the editors of Bloomberg urged the Republican Party to dump Donald Trump as quickly as possible before he becomes their 2024 presidential nominee.
The column noted that Trump's declining popularity among independents, combined with his multitude of legal problems, make him a risky nominee if the GOP is serious about regaining the White House.
Noting that there are a growing number of alternatives for Republicans to choose from, the editors wrote the former president will be a drag on other GOP candidates on the ticket, then they cut to the chase: "Two functional political parties shouldn’t be too much to ask of American democracy. At the moment, though, one of them is toying with outright disaster."
"Trump is worth opposing for all the familiar reasons, including the chaos, corruption and manifest incompetence that characterized his first term. Even ignoring all that, rejecting him is in Republicans’ self-interest," they wrote, "Electorally, Trump is (to borrow a phrase) a loser. He’s the first president since the Great Depression to have lost the House, Senate and Oval Office in a single term."
To shore up their point on the damage he will do to down-ticket Republicans, the editors noted a recent poll that showed, "putting Trump at the top of the ticket would give a five-point advantage to Democratic congressional candidates, a swing that would almost certainly give them control of the House."
Noting more mainstream Republicans who have jumped into the race, or are poised to, the editors wrote the GOP could either look elsewhere or, " ...could succumb once again to the Trump show, a cascade of vanity, ineptitude and gross misconduct that very nearly destroyed the American constitutional order."
"Really, it shouldn’t be a difficult choice," they added.
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