Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker emerged as a critic of the former president over his administration’s handling of Covid-19, the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. | Michael Dwyer/AP Photo
11/14/2022 07:28 PM EST
BOSTON — Massachusetts Republican Charlie Baker, the nation’s most popular governor, is urging his party to “move on” from Donald Trump on the eve of the former president’s expected 2024 campaign launch.
The two-term moderate, who has criticized Trump in the past but generally eschews wading into national politics, sat down for a rare cable news interview to deliver the warning.
“One of the messages from the election, for Republicans generally, is we need to as a party to move past President Trump and to move on to an agenda that represents the voices of all those in the party and the people of the country,” Baker told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview at the Massachusetts governor’s office that aired Monday.
“That’s clearly one of the messages that was sent to us by battleground-state voters and independent voters in particular — that they don’t want to play this game through the voice of one person or one personality,” Baker said in the interview, which was taped on Sunday. “And they want us, if we want to win races and to govern, to completely change the way we think about how we do this.”
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