A lot has changed since Donald Trump rode down the Trump Tower escalator in 2015. But, the race in many ways feels like a repeat of 2016 as a crowded GOP field struggles to stop a man whose sway over the GOP base defies the scandals piling up around him.
Ted Cruz fought his way to a second-place finish, while Marco Rubio bowed out after a letdown in his home state of Florida. The campaigns of Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul got lost in a field of 15 other rivals.This year, Tim Scott will be the only senator to run for president, but his Senate colleagues see the same obstacles before him as Trump, now a former president, mounts a return to the White House.
“I think he's gonna resonate with a lot of people, and how it plays out electorally, you know, obviously, this is a tough endeavor," Rubio told the Washington Examiner."Running for president is probably the hardest thing you can do in American politics." Even beating expectations, as Rubio did in Iowa when he placed third, can breathe new life into a young campaign.
Instead, he offered one bit of advice: “I think the first thing he needs to do is just focus on being himself,” he told the Washington Examiner. Trump rode to the 2016 nomination, and eventually the White House, goading his opponents into insults and taunts. He mocked Rubio as a “nervous basket case” for sweating on the debate stage, while the Florida senator questioned the implications of Trump’s “small” hand size.
Sen. J.D. Vance , one of 11 Senate Republicans to endorse Trump, said he’d be surprised if the former president went very negative with Scott. “It’s not just about asking — when you're asking people to vote for you, especially in a primary, you often have to do it in contrast to who you’re running against, and that oftentimes leads to some of that friction, but that's true in both parties,” Rubio added. “And I don't think that's going to change.”
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