… Anyone starting to write Trump’s political obituary would be well advised to put the pen down because, politically speaking, he does seem to have more than the proverbial cat’s nine lives. But the political environment is different from four years ago, and it cannot be reassuring for him or his backers.
Four years ago, in February 2019, the party apparatus was all his—there was not even a whiff of talk of a challenge to his renomination. Criticism of him within the GOP came from a mere 10 percent of the party, the “Never Trumpers.”
Everything seems different this time. Prior to last month’s Republican National Committee’s meeting in California, The New York Times’ Reid J. Epstein and Lisa Lerer queried all 168 RNC members: “Just four offered an unabashed endorsement of Mr. Trump’s 2024 campaign.” CONTINUED
Charlie Cook
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