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Anonymous ID: 8fde76 April 10, 2023, 12:37 p.m. No.18673212   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3285 >>3318 >>3340

As Trump dominates the airwaves, ‘it feels like f–king 2016’

Trump’s opponents are struggling to find a spotlight of their own in the 2024 campaign.

The Republican presidential primary was always expected to revolve around Trump. But post-indictment, as Republicans rally to his defense — including, crucially, conservative talkers on Fox News — Trump’s opponents are confronting an even more damaging dynamic in race: their inability to break through at all. | Alex Wong/Getty Images

By Sally Goldenberg and Natalie Allison 04/10/2023 04:30 AM EDT KeK

 

With the volume blaring on The Donald Trump Show, other Republican presidential hopefuls are struggling to make any noise of their own.

In the span of a week, Nikki Haley, former United Nations ambassador, campaigning at the U.S.-Mexico border, complained that “no one is talking about” immigration because of the focus on Trump’s “political drama.” Former Secretary of StateMike Pompeo’s trip to Ukraine was reduced to a blip on the media landscape, while Ron DeSantis avoided the spectacle and insteadrevived his war with Disney.

 

On the same day Trump was indicted in an alleged hush money scheme, the Florida governor wasposing with puppies at a pet adoption eventas his aides instructed reporters to leave.

 

“This is deja vu all over again,” said Terry Sullivan, who ran Marco Rubio’s 2016 campaign for president. “Trump dominates media coverage, making it impossible for his competitors to get any coverage or forward traction.”

 

The Republican presidential primary was always expected to revolve around Trump. But post-indictment, as Republicans rally to his defense — including, crucially, conservative talkers on Fox News — Trump’s opponents are confronting an even more damaging dynamic in race:Their inability to break through at all.

 

“It feels like fucking 2016,” said a Republican strategist who supports DeSantis and was granted anonymity to speak freely about the dynamics of the race. “Is there anything that can suck up asmuch political oxygenin the American political landscape as Trump? I don’t think so.”

 

Far from cable TV’s focus on Trump’s indictment, DeSantis has been plowing ahead with a political operation that resembles the early stages of a presidential campaign. But during the final weeks of Florida’s jam-packed legislation session — the backdrop against which DeSantis is preparing his case for taking his local conservative agenda nationwide — the governor hasn’t gotten a fraction of the attention Trump has. Visiting Long Island recently to promote his record and his book, he was greeted by a number of New Yorkers in MAGA hats and a sign that read “DeSantis 2028,” suggesting he get out of Trump’s way in 2024.

 

One man in the DeSantis-friendly audience repeatedly shouted “Trump!” before being escorted out of the museum where DeSantis spoke. Nearly all of the attendees POLITICO interviewed spoke favorably about DeSantis, but saidthey are already committed to supporting the ex-president’s comeback bid.

 

To Republicans who saw Trump steamroll through the primary in 2016, it’s all beginning to look like a rerun. And largely helpless to do anything about Trump on their own, they have been venting frustrations increasingly at the media.

 

“What’s frustrating to me iswe didn’t learn a damn thing from 2015 and 2016when it comes to just giving him absolute, roadblock media coverage,” said David Kochel, a veteran of six Republican presidential campaigns. “I get it, it’s a big story. But this was getting covered like … the opening of the war in Iraq or the O.J. chase. You couldn’t escape it.”

 

He said upcoming debates, cattle calls and other events during the campaign will “give everybody an equal footing, an opportunity” to drive their own coverage. But for now, he said, there isn’t much any Trump rival can do.

 

“I don’t know that there’s a strategy anybody could employ,” he said. “Maybe try shooting somebody on Fifth Avenue.”

 

Left unsaid was that many of the GOP contenders owe their careers to the man they are now wishcasting away. Mike Pence was Trump’s vice president, Pompeo served as his CIA director and secretary of state and Haley, who had been governor of South Carolina, was elevated as his United Nations ambassador. Trump often laments DeSantis’ disloyalty, saying he was trailing his opponent before Trump endorsed him in 2018.

One GOP Congressional staffer, granted anonymity to describe sensitive discussions about the campaign, said that in the current climate, “everybody” is worried about DeSantis’ chances.Meannwhile a PAC formed to bolster his candidacy has reportedly raised $30 million so far….

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/10/trump-2024-2016-gop-00091097