Why Trump will lose this time
by Conn Carroll, Commentary Editor
November 16, 2022 02:13 PM
When former President Donald Trump last competed in a Republican primary, he was the fresh face, the outsider coming in and disrupting a field full of career politicians.
Govs. Jeb Bush (R-FL) and Scott Walker (R-WI) were the front-runners at the time. They were formidable, but they gave Trump an opening on immigration because they, along with the general bipartisan consensus among mainstream politicians at the time, had supported granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.
This time, it is different. There is nothing fresh about Trump’s face. He has been on the political stage nonstop for seven years now. And about 50 minutes into his presidential campaign announcement Tuesday night, he basically admitted as much.
“I don’t like to think of myself as a politician, but I guess that’s what I am,” Trump said in the middle of a rant on parental rights. “I hate that thought.”
No wonder the entire speech was so "low energy."
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