“We want all the Republican candidates for president to show up,” said Ed Cox, who was elected chairman of the state Republican Party on Monday.
on Monday — and immediately declared the organization won’t back a candidate in the 2024 presidential primary, including former President Donald Trump.
“That’s what I did in 2016,” Cox, 76, told The Post as he reclaimed the position of party chairman after a four-year absence.remaining neutral“Donald Trump asked me a week before the primary to endorse him. I told him, `I can’t do that,’ ” Cox recalled — explaining that in open races without an incumbent, that’s his standard position.Cox and the establishment rallied around him.
“What did Trump do wrong? Trump is what this country needs right now. Trump instills confidence in the future,” said Paladino, a firebrand Buffalo-area businessman who co-chaired Trump’s 2016 campaign in New York.
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