{"id":8345,"date":"2024-01-16T23:18:20","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2024-01-17T00:59:41","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:59:41","slug":"reince-priebus-paths-limited-for-desantis-haley-post-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"Reince Priebus: Paths Limited for DeSantis, Haley Post-Iowa"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/reince-priebus\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Reince<\/p>\n

(The Center Square) \u2013 The former head of Wisconsin\u2019s Republican Party and the man in charge of this summer\u2019s Republican National Convention says he doesn\u2019t see anyone but Donald Trump getting the nomination.<\/p>\n

Reince Priebus told News Talk 1130\u2019s WISN that after the former president\u2019s resounding win in the Iowa Caucuses, Trump is the presumptive nominee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Donaald Trump exceeded expectations,\u201d Priebus said. \u201cI think that he exceeded the mental threshold that Democrats and people that don\u2019t like Trump wanted to out there. \u2018Oh, he didn\u2019t get 50%.\u2019 I think it ended up being 51%.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump doubled the vote totals of both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Halley in Monday night\u2019s caucuses.<\/p>\n

Priebus said that kind of victory will make it tough for either challenger to find a path forward, especially DeSantis, Priebus said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis play is that he is going to get second in South Carolina. That he\u2019s going to talk to donors about whether any of these cases are going to matter, in regard to President Trump, and whether he should stay in to see how things go,\u201d Priebus said. \u201c[But] nothing has panned out in terms of those hopes and wishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Haley, Priebus said, has a slightly different play. But he also doesn\u2019t see it panning out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a small play that, maybe, Nikki Haley can somehow rally in New Hampshire, and somehow win in South Carolina,\u201d Priebus said. \u201cHer play is that she is going to have this inside straight going through New Hampshire. The reality is that Super Tuesday is March 5. Fifteen states are rolling on March 5. You need to have an enormous amount of money, and an enormous number of volunteers combined to do well in 15 state primaries,\u201d<\/p>\n

Priebus said that\u2019s \u201ca tough hill to climb.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for Trump\u2019s play moving forward, Priebus said the former president needs to start running as the only Republican in the race and focus that race on President Biden,<\/p>\n

\u201cAct like the other campaigns don\u2019t matter to you. Slowly focus on Joe Biden, do all of your speeches about him. Go to New Hampshire and South Carolina and start acting like you are the presumptive nominee. That\u2019s number one,\u201d Priebus said.\u201d Number two, I\u2019d start making demands through your campaign to say \u2018I\u2019m the presumptive nominee.\u2019 And I would want the party to call me the presumptive nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Priebus said it looks more and more like nothing is going to stop the former president from getting the nomination at Milwaukee\u2019s RNC in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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