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How the 2024 POTUS election could include a Spoiler 

By Lee Cary ——--November 23, 2022

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How the 2024 POTUS election could include a Spoiler
Donald Trump's effort to recapture the U.S. Presidency is likely to fail.   If Trump is nominated to represent the GOP in the 2024 General Election, he'll face two opponents;
  1. The DNC candidate;
  2. A 'third party' politician, who will guarantee the election of the Democrat candidate. 
History confirms that a serious third-party candidate need not represent an established constituency.  
In 1908, Republican William Howard Taft was elected President. By 1912, his friend and supporter, former President Teddy Roosevelt (TR) – after the assassination of McKinley – was POTUS from September 1901-1908.  By 1912, TR was angry with Taft for not following his, TR's, progressive agenda. TR tried to gain the GOP nomination in 1912 but lost to Taft.  Consequently, TR formed his own third party, the Bull Moose Party, and the 1912 field of POTUS candidates became Taft, TR, and the Democrat candidate, Woodrow Wilson.  Wilson brought in the Federal Income Tax and the Federal Reserve (FED).  As well as U.S. involvement in World War 1.  The final vote ended with Wilson winning the Presidency with 43% of the vote.  Ironically, in 1992, when the three major POTUS candidates were Clinton, Bush I, and the independent candidate Ross Perot. Clinton won by the same percentage - 43%. If Trump's effort to be the 2024 GOP nominee is successful, the field could easily include a "third party" candidate who will, as was Perot, be a spoiler that ushers in a Democrat President. 
The Republican political class was never keen on Trump.  They're unlikely to even pretend to favor his candidacy in 2024.  After his loss in 2020, several leading members of his administration have been aggressive in their criticism of his leadership. Below seven are identified with their names linked to the sources for their statements.
"Former Defense Secretary James Mattis rebuked President Trump on Wednesday, accusing him of fomenting violence at the U.S. Capitol and poisoning Americans' respect for fellow citizens. 'Today's violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump,' read a statement by Mattis obtained by Fox News. 'His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice,' Mattis said. 'Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country.'" -- Jim Mattis
"Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper thinks former President Donald Trump is 'unfit for office' and that the GOP should look elsewhere for a primary candidate. 'I think he's unfit for office,' he said in an interview with CNN. 'I thought his remarks [on running in 2024] were very subdued and uninspiring.'" -- Mark Esper

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"Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has said that President Trump 'is the most flawed person' he's ever known, CNN reported.  'The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life,' Kelly has told friends." -- John Kelly
"[Former U.S.] National Security Advisor John Bolton berated his former boss, President Donald Trump, over his lack of knowledge dealing with Russia during his presidency. Bolton appeared on the far-right Newsmax network's Rob Schmitt Tonight disagreeing with the host's opinion that Trump had been hard on Russia while he was in office, saying Trump was not competent to be president. When Schmitt said the Trump administration's approach was 'pretty tough on Russia, in a lot of ways,' Bolton disagreed. Bolton argued that Trump 'didn't understand what he was doing in regards to Russia'. -- John Bolton
"Former Vice President Mike Pence said then-President Donald Trump 'endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building' during the Jan. 6 riot. 'The president's words were reckless and his actions were reckless, Pence told ABC's David Muir of his clear anger at his commander-in-chief as rioters stormed the Capital in 2021. 'It was clear he decided to be part of the problem,' insisted Pence in his most blunt account of his anger from that day." -- Mike Pence
"Former acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday on CNN's 'Anderson Cooper 360' that his old boss, former President Donald Trump is the only Republican who can't win the 2024 general election. "After Trump announced his candidacy, Cooper asked, 'Do you think this is good for the Republican Party?' "Mulvaney said, 'No, I don't. Because I think he's the only Republican who could lose. If he wins in 2024, now he's the candidate. He is the likely Republican nominee. Can he be beaten head-to-head by Ron Desantis or Tim Scott? Sure. But it's not going to be a head-to-head race. There will be five or six other people in the race, and he'll get the 35% that really support him, and under the winner-take-all primary system, he'll be the nominee.' "He added, 'That means the 2024 race is not about Joe Biden or whatever Democrat is on the ticket, not about inflation, not about world events, not about abortion. It will be about Donald Trump, the same thing we saw in 2020.'" -- Mick Mulvaney
"Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson painted a scathing picture of his old boss President Donald Trump as someone who made uninformed decisions that were not based in reality – a stark contrast to Trump's top diplomat Mike Pompeo, who is heaping praise on the outgoing President in his final days in office. "'His understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of U.S. history was really limited. It's really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn't even understand the concept for why we're talking about this,' Tillerson said in a lengthy interview with Foreign Policy conducted prior to Wednesday's assault on the Capitol that was published this week. "Tillerson, who was ousted in March 2018, told the magazine, 'I used to go into meetings with a list of four to five things I needed to talk to him about, and I quickly learned that if I got to three, it was a home run.'" -- Rex Tillerson
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It would be interesting to get the assessment of the seven above on the comparative performance, to date, of President Biden.   To Close: Suppose major donors to Trump's 2016 and 2020 campaigns are unwilling to support a third effort.  He could get significant support from wealthy liberals who would welcome the name of a recently indicted Republican politician appearing, shortly before the election, on millions of freshly printed ballots.   And, suppose Mulvaney is correct in saying, "He's the only Republican who could lose." The left may see an indicted Trump as a likely possibility. One whose campaign they'd be willing to fund in order to cover him in failure and embarrassment, for good. Such is the depth of their hatred. The American media, from FOX to MSNBC would welcome a continuing focus on Donald J. Trump.  It feeds their audiences.  Kenny Rogers sang a song entitled "The Gambler" that includes these words: You got to know when to hold 'em Know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away And know when to run

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Lee Cary—— Since November 2007, Lee Cary has written hundreds of articles for several websites including the American Thinker, and Breitbart’s Big Journalism and Big Government (as “Archy Cary”). and the Canada Free Press. Cary’s work was quoted on national television (Sean Hannity) and on nationally syndicated radio (Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin). His articles have posted on the aggregate sites Drudge Report, Whatfinger, Lucianne, Free Republic, and Real Clear Politics. He holds a Doctorate in Theology from Garrett Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, is a veteran of the US Army Military Intelligence in Vietnam assigned to the [strong]Phoenix Program[/strong]. He lives in Texas.

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