Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 195
Shake Up
Former Rep. Vin Weber (R-MN), a key early lieutenant in the Newt Gingrich revolution that transformed the U.S. House of Representatives and the Republican party, rejected the candidacy of Donald Trump as “a mistake of historic proportions” for his party, CNBC reports.
Said Weber: “I won’t vote for Trump. I can’t imagine I’d remain a Republican if he becomes president.”
“Vin Weber, a former Minnesota congressman and top policy adviser on Mitt Romney’s 2012 campaign, is assisting Jeb Bush’s all-but-certain bid for the Republican presidential nomination, adding yet another high-powered strategist to the former Florida governor’s political circle,” the Washington Post reports.
“Weber confirmed his move Tuesday, as did a Bush aide, after several GOP officials said Weber was working behind the scenes to win Bush support among influential donors and conservative intellectuals.”
“I’m not happy frankly with the way he’s chosen to re-enter presidential politics and I think his friends need to be honest with him about that. He’s a great man, he’d be a great president but there’s not a lot of precedent for somebody losing the election and coming back four years later, becoming the nominee.”
— Former Mitt Romney 2012 campaign co-chair Vin Weber, quoted by Bloomberg.
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire -- which for more than two decades has been one of the nation's most influential political news sites.
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