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Why the drive to primary Trump in 2020 is utterly pointless
Rich Lowry February 28, 2019
The race for 2020 is taking shape, although there are still significant unknowns, including whether President Trump will get a serious primary challenge in his own party.
His fiercest Republican critics say, “Yes — please, please, yes.â€
They are probably wrong, and it’s certainly nothing to root for.
Trump’s dominance of the party begins with his lockdown support of the right, forcing any primary challenger to the left. This isn’t fertile territory. Self-identified moderates and liberals are only a fraction of the party, and it is grassroots conservative activists who have fueled the most potent Republican primary challenges (Ronald Reagan’s in 1976, Pat Buchanan’s in 1992).
Because a primary challenge would naturally come from the left and is unlikely to succeed, it will tend to attract people who don’t have a future in GOP national politics and lack conservative bona fides.
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