{"id":1291645,"date":"2023-05-21T09:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/senate-republican-i-dont-think-trump-can-win-a-general-election\/1291645\/"},"modified":"2023-05-21T09:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T13:10:45","slug":"senate-republican-i-dont-think-trump-can-win-a-general-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/senate-republican-i-dont-think-trump-can-win-a-general-election\/1291645\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Republican: \u2018I don\u2019t think Trump can win a general election\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. <a target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/bill-cassidy\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Cassidy <\/a>(R-La.) on Sunday said he does not believe former President Trump can win another general election as he campaigns for the GOP nomination in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d host Jake Tapper highlighted <a target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4011005-desantis-suggests-only-he-could-beat-biden-ahead-of-expected-2024-launch\/\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is expected to launch his own 2024 bid later this week, that only he, Trump and President Biden are \u201ccredible\u201d candidates \u2014 but that only he and Biden have a chance of getting elected in the upcoming race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think Trump can win a general election,\u201d Cassidy said. He added that the Florida governor\u2019s remarks are \u201ca nice way for him to diss people like Tim Scott who\u2019s a pretty formidable candidate,\u201d in reference to Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) who <a target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3981949-tim-scott-makes-2024-bid-official\/\" rel=\"noopener\">made his 2024 bid<\/a> official last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you just have to take this as a competitor trying to diss others,\u201d Cassidy said of DeSantis\u2019s comments. But the senator then highlighted that, during 2022 midterms, many of the candidates Trump endorsed for the U.S. Senate lost their races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the President\u2019s kind of high-profile endorsement of those candidates actually hurt those candidates, at least in the general election,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cSo if past is prologue, that means President Trump is gonna have a hard time in those swing states, which means that he cannot win a general election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump has been polling well ahead of other Republicans in a hypothetical GOP primary, with DeSantis as a top potential challenger. But Trump still leads by double-digits ahead of DeSantis in national polls. With Scott newly in the running and DeSantis expected to join the race soon, the GOP primary is growing more <a target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/4003950-he-is-the-god-they-worship-house-dem-says-crowded-primary-only-helps-trump-with-gop\/\" rel=\"noopener\">crowded<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-i13n=\"cpos:5;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">\t\t\t\tFor the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to The Hill. \t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From:<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4014220-senate-republican-i-dont-think-trump-can-win-a-general-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Senate Republican: \u2018I don\u2019t think Trump can win a general election\u2019\" rel=\"noopener\">AOL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) on Sunday said he does not believe former President Trump can win another general election as he campaigns for the GOP&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1291645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-5q0Z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}