{"id":300,"date":"2023-01-10T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=300"},"modified":"2023-01-10T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T17:03:30","slug":"let-the-games-begin-donald-trump-gets-first-2024-republican-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Let the Games Begin: Donald Trump Gets First 2024 Republican Challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s national security advisor John Bolton announced Friday that he is planning to run against Trump in the 2024 presidential elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI would get in to win the nomination and I would do it primarily on the basis that we need a much stronger foreign policy,\u201d Bolton told Noah Phillips, North America correspondent for the British news show Good Morning Britain, on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Donald Trump&#39;s former national security advisor John Bolton has told us that he will run for US President in a bid to stop his former boss from getting back into the White House. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZY66AFQ2od\">pic.twitter.com\/ZY66AFQ2od<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Good Morning Britain (@GMB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GMB\/status\/1611246160756314113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 6, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s important that it\u2019s understood not just in Moscow, but it\u2019s understood in places like Beijing, that unprovoked aggression against your neighbors is not something the United States and its allies will tolerate,\u201d Bolton further said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolton criticized Trump, who will be one of his competitors for the Republican nomination, saying Trump\u2019s support within the party remains in \u201cterminal decline.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending his suitability as a candidate in the presidential elections, Bolton said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t run as a vanity candidate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf I didn\u2019t think I could run seriously, then I wouldn\u2019t get in the race,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of his political career, which goes as far back as the Reagan administration, Bolton cultivated the reputation of a foreign policy hawk advocating for U.S. military action and regime change interventions in Iran, Syria, Libya, Venezuela, Cuba, Yemen and North Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/john-fettermans-swearing-in-was-painful-to-observe\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/john-fettermans-swearing-in-was-painful-to-observe\/\"><strong>See also<\/strong>&nbsp;John Fetterman&#8217;s Swearing-In Was Painful to Observe<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During President George W. Bush\u2019s 2003 war against Iraq, Bolton served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2018, Trump appointed Bolton as national security advisor to fill in the vacancy left by Michael T. Flynn. The former president would later give Bolton the nickname \u201cMr. Tough Guy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Bolton\u2019s stint as national security advisor would prove to be short-lived after Trump fired him in September 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Twitter post announcing the advisor\u2019s dismissal, Trump wrote that he had informed Bolton the previous night that \u201chis services are no longer needed at the White House\u201d and that he and Bolton had disagreements on many of the latter\u2019s suggestions. Bolton resigned a day after Trump\u2019s comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bolton would later publish a book called \u201cThe Room Where It Happened\u201d \u2014 copies of which had been leaked during the 2019 impeachment of the president \u2014 making bombshell allegations about Trump\u2019s foreign policy and his relations with China and Russia, drawing blowback from the president and his supporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wacko John Bolton\u2019s \u201cexceedingly tedious\u201d(New York Times) book is made up of lies &amp; fake stories. Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him. A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized &amp; happily dumped. What a dope!<\/p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1273468029712707584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>University of New Haven professor of political science Joshua Sandman told Newsweek that Bolton\u2019s chances of winning the 2024 GOP nomination remain slim to nonexistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/usda-greenlights-first-ever-honeybee-vaccine\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/usda-greenlights-first-ever-honeybee-vaccine\/\"><strong>See also<\/strong>&nbsp;USDA Greenlights First-Ever Honeybee Vaccine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBolton, in Republican politics, does not have much political visibility outside a narrow group of people interested in foreign policy issues,\u201d Sandman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would be very difficult to take the spotlight from Trump, [former Vice President] Mike Pence, Ron DeSantis or other more broadly known Republicans contenders,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>University of Dayton assistant professor of political science Christopher Devine agreed with Sandman\u2019s assessment, according to Newsweek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Bolton] has no base of support within the Republican Party, and has never run for elected office,\u201d Devine told Newsweek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven in a wide-open field, it would be very difficult for him to win the nomination. But with Donald Trump also running, as a former president who is still widely popular in the Republican Party, Bolton has little hope of coming in first,\u201d Devine said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Dr. Rob Goodman, political theorist and assistant professor at Toronto Metropolitan University\u2019s Department of Politics and Public Administration, Bolton\u2019s emphasis on aggressive foreign policy isn\u2019t \u201cvery popular in the Republican Party or in the country as a whole.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn general, foreign policy just doesn\u2019t drive that much support one way or the other when it comes to primary elections or to public opinion in general,\u201d Goodman told Newsweek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Story cited\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/let-games-begin-donald-trump-gets-first-2024-republican-challenger\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativemodern.com\/let-the-games-begin-donald-trump-gets-first-2024-republican-challenger\/\">Let the Games Begin: Donald Trump Gets First 2024 Republican Challenger \u2013 ConservativeModern.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s national security advisor John Bolton announced Friday that he is planning to run against Trump in the 2024 presidential elections. \u201cI would get in to win the nomination and I would do it primarily on the basis that we need a much stronger foreign policy,\u201d Bolton told Noah Phillips, North America correspondent for the British news show Good Morning Britain, on Friday. \u201cI think it\u2019s important that it\u2019s understood not just in Moscow, but it\u2019s understood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trump"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}