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Former President Donald Trump appears to be the front-runner for the Republican nomination to run for President in 2024, but who is pulling hardest for him to capture the nomination? According to National Review Editor-in-Chief Rich Lowry, it may actually be Democrats who want Trump to be the GOP’s choice. Lowry appeared on 710 WOR’s Len Berman and Michael Riedel in the Morning program to explain why, in a recent column, he says he thinks Democrats are adopting a twist on reverse psychology and rooting for Trump- that is, until the primaries are done.
“His indictments wouldn’t be going forward if the hierarchy of the Justice Department believed that they were going to help Trump win the general election,” Lowry surmised with Berman and Riedel. “They would find some way to say, ‘No, we’re actually not going to go there,’ the same way they said ‘Oh, we’re not going to go there’ in terms of the Hunter (Biden) investigation… they certainly should’ve realized after the Mar-a-Lago raid or the Bragg indictment that the indictments helped Trump and then probably hurt him in the general.”
If, by some chance, Trump does not capture the nomination, and if Ron DeSantis continues to fade, Lowry sees a hard road ahead for who he thinks could be the standard-bearer. “The next logical alternative would be Tim Scott. Everyone likes him, his favorable ratings are high… Tim Scott’s very popular among conventional Republicans; can he eat into Trump’s MAGA base in theory enough to get to fifty (per cent)? That’s what I’m skeptical of.”
Lowry also skewered Democrats for how the image of Joe Biden has taken a beating recently. “I think this Air Force One story from NBC at least shows the White House realizes, those steps on that plane are an honest-to-God mortal threat to the man, so it’s smart to get him in the shorter steps, under the belly, where he can’t be seen, in case he has a problem… If he doesn’t need a walker now, he’ll need one probably a year from now.”