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Five months before the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race begins, veteran strategists and social conservative leaders say the potential areas of GOP candidates could be the strongest in modern times. increase.
“I’m thrilled with the people who may run … I find it hard to claim that it’s the most powerful potential area of Republican modern history, certainly in terms of available benches. “Masu,” Ralph Reed, President of Faith and the Associated State, told Fox News.
Reed, a well-known and veteran political consultant who led the Christian Union in the 1990s, interviewed a few days ago on the eve of his group’s annual “Road to the Majority” conference in Nashville, Tennessee this year. I received it. ..
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The Faith and Liberal League, a public advocacy group founded over a decade ago by Reed, defends a socially conservative position, with its annual conference of thousands of Republican and conservative leaders. Attracts strategists, activists and evangelical voters.
And this year, it attracted a handful of top Republicans who are considered potential candidates for 2024. Among them was former President Donald Trump. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who served as UN Ambassador during the Trump administration. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives, was the CIA Director and top US diplomat under Trump. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, another rising star of the GOP, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, former Governor of the Second Term, and current Republican Senate Committee Chairman.
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Looking at the potential Republican 2024 areas, former Vice President Mike Pence, Governor of Florida Rondesantis, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, and other alliances with faith and family movements. Many people are included. “This is the embarrassment of wealth, and it is an honor, humility, and excitement to welcome a lot of wealth to this conference,” Reed said.
Trump ridicules Pence with a confab of faith and freedom
Trump plundered the former Vice President in his attention-grabbing speech at the Face and Freedom Confab on Friday night. Parliament building by right-wing extremists aimed at obstructing the proceedings.
Trump has abandoned Pence’s constitutional obligations, and the elections prosecuted by the former president to date without providing concrete evidence are full of “massive fraudulent votes,” “fraud,” and “theft.” He repeatedly urged him to refuse to prove that he was.
“Mike Pence had a great opportunity. He had a historic opportunity,” Trump said when the House Select Commission, which investigated the attack on the Capitol, became part of the then president and his allies. He spoke the day after applying strong verbal and physical pressure. He attacked the Parliament building in Pence to overturn the result. “Mike didn’t have the courage to act … Mike was afraid of whatever he was afraid of.”
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And Trump made his comment in front of the sea of social conservatives who had seen Pence as one of their greatest champions for years.
Pence was invited, but was unable to attend the meeting for the first time in a few years due to a schedule conflict for official reasons. Pence was in Ohio on Friday for an event with Republican Governor Mike Dewein. While talking at the confab last year, some of the audience booed Pence and called him a “traitor.” And it instantly grabbed a national headline.
Reed, who is close to both Pence and Trump, told reporters following the speech of the former president, “If Mike Pence comes and wants to provide a reunion to these people, he can do it. I should have. When I met him a few weeks ago, he said he was harmless and had no fouls, but he wanted me to be here next year. He will be there. “
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Cotton will hold a conference in 2024
Two sources of Senator Tom Cotton’s political trajectory told Fox News that Arkansas Republicans and Iraq War veterans met with top donors and advisors at the Hay Adams Hotel in downtown Washington, DC on Tuesday morning. confirmed.
Sources shared that Cotton said he would not postpone his own decision to launch a national campaign to other potential candidates, including former President Trump. And Mr Cotton said the decision to run for president will be made after the midterm elections in November.
The news of the rally First reported by Politico.
Faced with nominal opposition after easily winning a reelection in the bright red Arkansas in 2020, Cotton crossed the country in support of Republican associates in the midterm elections last year and this year in November. And he stopped by many times in Iowa and New Hampshire. This is the first two states to vote on the Republican Presidential Nomination Calendar.
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However, Senators publicly blame when asked around 2024.
“I haven’t made any decisions about the future right now. The election looking at us on our windshield is the 2022 election,” Cotton told Fox News in December while stopped in New Hampshire. Told.
Pritzker’s trip to New Hampshire evokes speculation
Governor JB Pritzkar of Illinois was one of the speakers featured at the New Hampshire Democratic State Convention on Saturday.
And during the first century of hosting the first primary at the White House Race, Pritzker’s trip to the state led to the first governor, billionaire businessman, philanthropist, and family owning the Hyatt Hotel Chain. There was speculation that one member might have a future. National ambition.
“The truth is that I’m going to help other Democratic governors be elected,” Pritzker told reporters in Chicago last week prior to his trip. “I love my job and can’t say anything other than running for this governor’s reelection. I’m going to do a good job for the people of the next state. Four years.”
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According to Pritzker’s 2022 re-election campaign, the governor is focusing on supporting the election and re-election of Democrats nationwide this year.
They also visited Massachusetts during the swing in New England this weekend to assist Governor Maura Healy, a leading candidate for this year’s Democratic Governor nomination, and to stop by Maine for the Democratic Party. He said he would support Governor Janet. Mills running for reelection.
Fox News Thomas Philippen contributed to this report