Seven candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination will debate Wednesday night, but the proceedings will be dominated by two former GOP presidents:
Ronald Reagan, whose presidential library is the site of the second Republican presidential debate, and Donald Trump, who bypassed the event but is the heavy favorite to win the party’s nomination for the third consecutive election.Every candidate onstage in California on Wednesday night will be looking to escape from Trump’s shadow. And party leaders have been trying to ascend to Reagan’s level for decades.
Haley’s speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention was an extended tribute to Reagan’s U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick and her speech at the 1984 convention. In a speech in Scott’s South Carolina earlier this week, Trump said the United States was in decline and might be finished if Biden is reelected. He said America might as well be a “developing country” and was at risk of being baited into World War III.
Reagan was reelected in a 49-state landslide, like Richard Nixon before him. Trump lost in 2020, but polling shows he is a viable candidate to serve nonconsecutive terms for the first time since Grover Cleveland. And many rank-and-file Republicans view Trump as a quasi-incumbent who got a raw deal in his first go-round with Biden.
“I would say Bushies,” Trump said. “I say that with respect to the Bush family, but they were Bushies, and it just doesn’t work out for us.”
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