Politics reporter AllyHutzler spoke with Republican Bill Weld (GovBillWeld) about his plans to stop 'insecure bully' Donald Trump from making it to the 2020 general election
Bill Weld has always felt like he could “start Monday” as president of the United States, but never thought it was truly necessary to turn the fantasy into a reality. That is until Donald Trump came along.The 73-year-old former governor of Massachusetts is the first Republican to form an exploratory committee for president, posing a potential threat to Trump’s otherwise clear path to the party’s nomination and possible re-election.
Still, Weld undeniably faces an uphill battle against a party that is hooked on Trump. According to Gallup, the president has earned a 90 percent approval rating among Republicans since mid-February. In fact, since entering office in January 2017, Trump has rarely fallen below 80 percent approval among his conservative base.
“Take whatever stats you want for the president’s current popularity, that’s a photograph in time but six months is forever in national politics,” Weld said. “All of the Justice Department’s shoes have not yet dropped. The talk about impeachment has not run its course. I think it’s very unlikely that the picture will look the same in six months as it does now.”
You served as the head of the criminal division at the Justice Department in the Reagan administration. How do you feel about Robert Mueller’s handling of the Russia investigation and what do you make of the president’s attacks on his own agency? The president’s claim that climate change is a hoax is ludicrous. The science is not really debatable. If I won the job I would put us back in the Paris [climate] accords immediately and cause the country to adopt 2050 CO2 standards that are consonant with what other industrialized countries have done. I think the president just doesn’t understand that our mountains and streams and rivers and valleys, they are our cathedrals.
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