Bill Weld thinks GOP voters should bail on the president. So why is he making his case to independents?
MANCHESTER, N.H.— Bill Weld leans back in a chair, hand on his hip, and talks about the Republican Party like someone who’s been away for a while and is trying to get used to all the new development. “I know a lot of the Republicans in Washington, and they’re good people,” says the sandy-haired, ruddy-faced primary challenger to President Trump. “They’re just cowed by this president somehow.”
So on Fox News, Weld had to answer why voters should take him seriously, above a chyron that cited Trump’s 87 percent approval rating among Republicans. He did better atWeekly StandardBulwarkIt’s hard to know whether he’s making any headway. In late April, former senator Bob Corker, an avowed Republican foe of the president, mused about the value of a primary challenge for Trump.
Trump brings out the prosecutor in Weld, who wants to build his campaign on rule of law, abroad and at home. From 1981 to 1986, as the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, he secured convictions ofand 85 public corruption defendants, including 19 Boston city employees. Bob Mueller, he told the Henneker audience, was his top deputy.
Somehow this comparison manages to be both historically accurate and politically suicidal. Comparing Lincoln to Jeb BushBut this is precisely the point about Weld’s strategy. He’s not aiming to win over regular Republican primary voters, despite what his party affiliation might indicate. “I’ve always done better with Independents than I did with Republicans,” he says.
But if he’s essentially conceding Trump’s biggest achievements—tax cuts and Supreme Court nominees—why, I asked, should Republicans abandon the president who brought them their dearest wishes? “He’s not an economic conservative,” Weld says. “He’s not stable in foreign policy. He seems to be trying to expand Russia’s sphere of influence at the expense of our own. He seems to be promoting autocrats’ actions.
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