For much of the Republican presidential field, Donald Trump is the candidate who must not be named — or at least not criticized too harshly
among core GOP voters, even as a majority of people in the United States disapprove of him. Many party loyalists who say they are open to alternatives aren't necessarily enthusiastic about criticizing the former president.
Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador during the Trump administration, offered a critique by pairing it with a compliment. “There’s nobody that wants us to be looking backwards more than the Democrats and the media,” he said, adding a seeming allusion to Trump’s lies that his loss to Biden was rigged. “They would love to have us have to relitigate all this stuff from 2020,” DeSantis said.
Explained Whit Ayres, a national Republican pollster, “You can’t win the nomination by attacking frontally.” Brad Raymer, an attendee from Marietta, Georgia, was among the attendees who has cast two November ballots for Trump. But he called the Friday conversation refreshing.
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