Republicans warned Trump will put them in an 'awful position' choosing his replacement
Looking far ahead at how the 2028 presidential nominations will line up, former Republican party campaign consultant Matthew Dowd predicted Donald Trump will, in all likelihood, put his party in an awful bind.
Reacting to accusations that the president is attempting to "freeze" the field as he flirts with running for a third term despite constitutional prohibitions, Dowd suggested Trump would wait to the last minute to pick his successor, thereby leaving the GOP leadership stuck with whomever he anoints.
Speaking with host Alex Witt on MSNBC, Dowd followed up comments that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-NY) couldn't beat Trump but matched up well with Vice President J.D. Vance.
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"It's primarily about the grift," he began. "That's the first point of it. But he is freezing the field, one, by virtue of his enormous personality and sway in getting media attention. But he does make other Republicans sort of stop and not do anything in the course of this."
"And I think that's part of his plan because Donald Trump doesn't want to be viewed as sort of the lame duck," he elaborated. "'We're going to to move on, we're going to have another leader emerge.' And I think he's going to try to push that as long as possible."
"I don't think there's any way in anybody's mind that he can constitutionally run, it's specifically forbidden in the Constitution," he claimed. " I think secretaries of states in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Colorado, any number of states won't allow him on the ballot and will be supported by the courts in that. But i think it does put the Republicans in an awful position because they can't come up with their next leader."
He added. "And I think what allows Donald Trump to do is lay his hands on the last, on the last minute, on somebody, and then it puts them in an awful position of them having to rally around a one person that he lays his hands on in the final minute of this, and that's problematic."
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