In challenge to Trump, Bill Weld exploring 2020 run as a Republican
BEDFORD, N.H — William F. Weld, the former two-term governor of Massachusetts, said Friday he is launching a presidential exploratory committee, taking a formal step to become the first Republican to directly challenge President Trump in the 2020 GOP primary.
“I think our country is in grave peril and I cannot sit quietly on the sidelines anymore,” Weld said in a lacerating anti-Trump speech at the Politics & Eggs breakfast in Bedford, a traditional stop for would-be presidential candidates.
Accusing Trump of denigrating the free press, humiliating foreign allies, and heaping praise on authoritarian leaders, Weld said the president is a “schoolyard bully” and “simply too unstable to carry out the duties of the highest executive office in the land.”
Trump’s “priorities are skewed toward the promotion of himself, rather than to the good of the country,” Weld said.
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