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| Subject: A useless nuisance: Weld makes long-shot bid to unseat Trump Sun Mar 01, 2020 8:58 pm | |
| BOSTON — Down in the polls, lagging in fundraising and blocked from the ballot in several states, former Republican Gov. Bill Weld isn't giving up on his long-shot bid to dethrone incumbent President Donald Trump in the upcoming GOP primaries.
Weld, 74, of Canton, has been crisscrossing the state in the past week, visiting schools, food pantries, coffee shops and pizza parlors in a ground campaign to drum up votes ahead of the GOP primary. Despite the lopsided race, Weld said he is confident about his chances next Tuesday when he will be on GOP ballots in several states, including Massachusetts.
"It's a long-shot, but this is a race that has to be run," Weld said during a visit Wednesday to the editorial board of The Eagle-Tribune, a sister paper of The Salem News. "Donald Trump is an existential threat to the nation."
Weld is not well known nationally but is widely respected among veterans in the Republican establishment. He has been highly critical of Trump's presidency.
He is a believer in free markets, global trade and the international order. He argues that Trump has abandoned the principles that have guided the GOP since President Ronald Reagan.
"They keep calling me the RINO ("Republican in name only"), but Trump is the real RINO," Weld said. "He has turned the Republican Party into his own personal cult."
On the campaign trail, he has talked about putting a price on carbon emissions to address climate change, reducing the deficit and restoring America's diplomacy.
https://www.salemnews.com/news/local_news/weld-makes-long-shot-bid-to-unseat-trump/article_624ccf6d-94b1-5309-97b7-6e1b12598fc4.html
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