'I would be ashamed of myself if I didn’t raise my hand and run,' the former Massachusetts governor told CNN.
Bill Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts and 2016 vice presidential candidate to Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson, said Monday that he is officially running for president as a Republican candidate in an attempt to unseat President Donald Trump in the 2020 primary.
Previously, Weld formed an exploratory committee for a potential run. No stranger to his distaste for the current president, he told CNN Monday afternoon that it would be a “political tragedy” for Trump to win re-election. Weld has a tough task ahead of him, considering the man he seeks to unseat has maintained a high approval rating amongst Republicans. And in the first quarter of 2019, Trump’s re-election campaign raised $30 million, eclipsing all Democratic candidates.
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