All hell broke loose when Trump found out these Republicans are rooting for him to lose
Donald Trump couldn’t believe it.
He’s still facing saboteurs in his midst.
And all hell broke loose when Trump found out these Republicans are rooting for him to lose.
Establishment RINOs still working against Trump
POLITICO’s columnist Jonathan Martin is a torchbearer for inside the Beltway conventional wisdom.
Martin’s latest missive was headlined “The GOP is actually better off if Kamala Harris wins,” where he baselessly claimed, “the best possible outcome in November for the future of the Republican Party is for Donald Trump to lose and lose soundly.”
“GOP leaders won’t tell you that on the record. I just did,” Martin wrote.
Martin revealed that in his private conversations with establishment Republicans, their number one concern isn’t defeating Vice President Kamala Harris.
Rather, the leadership of the GOP is most concerned with trying to get rid of Trump and his voters.
“For most Republicans who’ve not converted to the Church of MAGA, this scenario is barely even provocative. In fact, asking around with Republicans last week, the most fervent private debate I came across in the party was how best to accelerate Trump’s exit to the 19th Hole,” Martin wrote.
Martin quoted one former Republican strategist who expressed his contempt for Republican Party voters.
“You’re assuming Republicans have a top of the ticket problem and not a voter base problem,” former GOP strategist Terry Sullivan told Martin. “It’s not like our leaders have been leading the voters to the wilderness against the voters’ judgment.”
Why Establishment Republicans want Trump to lose
Establishment Republicans still can’t accept that the GOP is no longer the party of RINOs like Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, and John McCain.
One RINO told POLITICO they are more worried about Trump winning in 2024 because that means the GOP will be the party of America First foreign policy and secure borders.
“There’s a lot of anxiety about what Trump does to Republican ability to win in 2028 — and what he also may do to the party in terms of policy long-term. There is just this concern that like, ‘OK, if the party just goes in that direction, then what kind of party is it going forward? And can conservatives, then, have a home going forward?’” the RINO told POLITICO’s Playbook.
Donald Trump wants to end the war in Ukraine.
Establishment RINOs like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) believe the defining fight in Washington, D.C. isn’t with Democrats, it’s with Trump supporters who oppose a blank check for President Joe Biden’s failed war.
Should Trump win re-election in November and negotiate a deal to bring a close to the war in Ukraine, it will discredit the warmongers and solidify Trump’s policy hold on the Republican Party.
The GOP establishment hoped Trump would lose in 2016.
Eight years later, the party leadership is still secretly hoping for Democrat victory.
