Former President Donald Trump’s rant-filled weekend campaign stops highlight the challenges he faces in the 2024 election — including getting big donors to back him and even longtime allies to endorse him.
Trump, 76, sang no new tunes as he hit the stump for the first time since announcing his third straight run for the White House in November.
Instead of dispelling critics who say his message is stale — and potentially reeling in deep-pocketed GOP donors — Trump continued to harp on his long-disproven allegations of 2020 election fraud, batted at windmills and ripped anticipated primary-race foe and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“It’s time for a younger person or someone new to have their time,” said Karen Umberger — a delegate at the Republican State Committee’s annual meeting in Salem, NH, where Trump spoke Saturday — to the Washington Post.
The poor showing of Trump-endorsed candidates in the midterm election led New Hampshire delegate Bill Bowen to say he would favor DeSantis.
“We really need a candidate who can appeal more to the middle,” said Bowen, who was among the little more than 400 people at the campaign event in a local high-school auditorium, to the outlet.
“The question is, how do you do that without alienating Trump-ish voters?”
Marilyn Huston of Cheshire County, NH, told the outlet that Trump is simply too “unpredictable’’ to lead the country again.
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