Advice to Never Trumpers: Back Biden
The best way for anti-Trump Republicans to protect their interests would be to form a temporary alliance with Joe Biden in 2020.
April 16, 2019, 8 p.m.
Josh Kraushaar
The anti-Trump Republican movement, whatever remains of it, has been defined more by its articulation of first principles than its appreciation of winner-take-all politics. But politics is fundamentally about compromise, and the movement has been hamstrung by its inability to work with either the Trump administration or the Democratic opposition.
Short of working within the administration to influence the president’s agenda, the clearest option for anti-Trump Republicans would be to ensure that there’s at least one mainstream nominee running on the 2020 presidential ballot. That’s far from assured, given that Sen. Bernie Sanders is looking like a formidable Democratic candidate early on, with his socialist agenda winning support from a critical mass of primary voters and small-dollar donors.
Given these realities, it would make strategic sense for anti-Trump Republicans to forge a temporary alliance with the leading centrist candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, with the expectation that like-minded independents and moderate Republicans would play a critical role in tipping the scales in his favor via open Democratic primaries.
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