Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld (R) launched an exploratory committee Friday to consider competing against President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primaries.
According to the Boston Herald, Weld made his announcement at the “Politics and Eggs” breakfast in New Hampshire, saying that the country is in “grave peril.”
“We have a President whose priorities are skewed toward promotion of himself rather than toward the good of the country,” he said. “To compound matters, our President is simply too unstable to carry out the duties of the highest executive office — which include the specific duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed — in a competent and professional matter.”
Weld was reportedly a libertarian vice presidential candidate in 2016, but has since switched back to the Republican Party.
Weld, 73, said that many members of his party had fallen to “Stockholm Syndrome,” falling in line with Trump, “their captor.”
Bill Weld was in my class at law school, and I was pretty familiar with him as governor. There was a time when he might have been a serious candidate. No more. Now he’ll be at best a token.
Bill Weld is one of only two R’s I’ve ever voted for (Ed Brooke being the other). I fell for his good governance shtick. Highly unlikely it will happen again, but, thanks for playing, Governor.
Weld ran against John Silber, president of Boston University, who was a psychopath. I voted for him, too. Classic case of lesser of two evils.
Isn’t he one of those Third Way types who manage to mess elections up?
The tell, is there has been a buzz about this for a couple of days - and not a single demeaning tweet from Trump.
Even when he is distracted - he always finds time for demeaning tweets for anything/anyone he sees as a threat or as drawing attention away from himself.