Bill Weld launches GOP presidential exploratory committee

[DonViejo]

Announces in NH he’s eyeing run against Trump

By JOE BATTENFELD | [e-mail] | Boston Herald
PUBLISHED: February 15, 2019 at 7:59 am | UPDATED: February 15, 2019 at 9:02 am

Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld is launching a presidential exploratory committee to challenge President Trump in the Republican primaries, saying the country is “in grave peril” and he “cannot sit quietly on the sidelines any longer.”

Weld becomes the first Republican to officially announce he is exploring a run against Trump, and sets up a potential match-up in the first-in-the-nation New Hampshire presidential primary and in other states.

In prepared remarks at the “Politics & Eggs” breakfast in Bedford, N. H., Weld delivered a blistering critique of Trump, saying “we have a president whose priorities are skewed toward promotion of himself rather than toward the good of the country.”

“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 said in his prepared remarks. “He is simply in the wrong place.”

Weld, who lives in Sharon but has a home in New Hampshire, was the Libertarian Party vice presidential candidate in 2016 but just last month switched party affiliation, going back to the Republican Party.

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[nolabear]

1. Well, at least someone will be out there criticizing him.

Maybe he’ll freak out and spend all his time sniping rather than destroying any more lives.

As if...

[Vogon_Glory]

2. I Hope Weld Runs

I doubt he’ll get the nomination and his defeat in the primaries would be another swing of the wrecking ball to journos’ and the dwindling ranks of Republican moderates’ walls of denial as to what the GOP has become.

[janx]

4. I hope he does too.

He was effectively kicked out of the Republican party back in the early 90s when it went through the huge ideological shift that was the beginning of its demise.

[tritsofme]

3. Weld is not relevant.

Another anti-Trump voice from the right can’t hurt, but his support will not even be statistically significant.