The former president could launch his third campaign any day now as the Jan. 6 committee keeps singeing him. But Senate GOP leaders would prefer to make November about burning Joe Biden.
Donald Trump’s flirtations with launching a third presidential run during the Jan. 6 select committee’s probe might as well be a grenade inside the GOP’s midterm strategy. And Republicans aren’t sure how to defuse it.
The Republican Party is plainly still struggling to deal with Trump more than seven years since he launched his first presidential campaign and nearly 18 months since he left office. GOP leaders need his loyal voters to win general elections this fall, but they do not want their incumbents or candidates talking about Trump — just about how unpopular Biden is and how high inflation is on his watch.
“I get it, I get it,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of leaders’ concerns about Trump’s presidential campaign disrupting the midterms. “If President Trump is going to run for president again, the sooner he announces the more focused he gets on the future. Talking about comparing and contrasting rather than looking backward, would be the hope.”
“She’s honestly testifying as to what she saw. I don’t know her. And I think she painted the picture of a pretty chaotic situation ... But we’re never going to get to hear if there are opposing views. Or maybe [Pat] Cipollone will have opinions on that,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito , referring to Trump’s former White House counsel.Even Republicans who voted to convict Trump found Hutchinson’s testimony revelatory. Sen.
“I don’t have time to watch the whole thing, you know. I’m getting phone calls: Why I don’t spend more time watching that? People, they must think we just sit around here and watch television,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley , who said he has only seen pieces of Hutchinson’s testimony while traveling his state.
Grassley said he gets no questions about the investigation into Trump at his town hall meetings back home, only about rising prices and the U.S.-Mexico border. And that’s the best fallback Republicans have as they bite their nails ahead of a Trump announcement: the belief that voters have already made up their minds about him, no matter what incendiary new details the select committee reveals.Across the Capitol, Trump’s House allies publicly say they hope he will mount a third presidential bid.
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