Illinois’ Republican national committeeman urges GOP to bypass Trump and back DeSantis
Paul McKenney takes a selfie with a Trump figure during a Republican State Central Committee meeting at the Bolingbrook Golf Club on Dec. 10, 2022, in Bolingbrook.
In a major move by a top member of Illinois’ GOP leadership, the state’s Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter is urging party members to move past former President Donald Trump and instead pick Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as the party’s 2024 presidential nominee. “Our nominee will either be Trump or someone better than Trump — someone with chutzpah, but savvier and more likely to succeed. I believe that after flirting with other attractive candidates, the Republican alternative who will emerge is Ron DeSantis,” Porter wrote Wednesday in a“Republicans will weigh our attractive alternatives in the debates, as we should,” he wrote.
Porter becomes the highest-ranking member of the Illinois GOP to announce a break with Trump. He has been the state’s committeeman to the Republican National Committee since 2014 and was an Illinois delegate pledged to Trump by party rules in the 2016 Republican National Convention and as one of three Illinois delegates to the pandemic-limited 2020 convention.In his column, Porter said Trump has a “fatal flaw” of engaging in fights that show he is “more peevish than principled.
“Democrats lay traps in plain sight, and the muscle head of U.S. politics walks right into them, time after time. True, he rallies his MAGA loyalists with each fight, no matter how ill-conceived. Most Republicans who are not Trump haters watch his travails with admiration and morbid fear: Can the old lion escape the jackals yet again?” Porter wrote.
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