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.
But Weld was ready. He praised Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron. And he wasn’t done. He name-dropped Singaporean ex-diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. Then, for extra credit, Weld mentioned that he keeps in touch with former Irish leader Bertie Ahern, making sure to correctly pronounceThis was Weld’s opening to pivot to an attack on Trump for being attracted to “the autocrats and the despots” like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un.
Weld also intends to challenge Trump’s immigration policy, despite Republican voters’ strong support for it. “A policy or campaign based on anti-immigrant spleen and fervor is not a noble campaign,” he says. To make the case, Weld hearkens back to 1854, when the Whig Party broke up and ex-Whigs split between the new Republican Party and the anti-immigrant. The Know-Nothings “had violent rallies and they were given to conspiracy theories,” Weld says.
Weld calls Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh “well-qualified.” Though he found Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony alleging a teenage assault by Kavanaugh “very troubling” and “very credible,” it didn’t change his opinion that Kavanaugh was a good choice for the court. “He was 17 years old,” Weld says. “And we’re not talking about rape here. That doesn't mean it’s a day at the beach and I’m all for it.
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