{"id":24936,"date":"2019-08-26T12:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24936"},"modified":"2019-08-26T12:17:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T11:17:25","slug":"who-will-challenge-trump-for-the-republican-candidacy-and-will-it-make-any-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24936","title":{"rendered":"Who will challenge Trump for the Republican candidacy and will it make any difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>There are still over 20 politicians seeking to become the Democratic candidate in the US presidential election of 2020. I&#8217;ve seen most of them interviewed on &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; with Trevor Noah and any of them would be a dramatic improvement on the current occupant of the White House. Most are very fluent and many are quite liberal in American terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But who will dare to challenge Donald Trump for the Republican candidacy? The one challenger so far Bill Weld has made no impact, but, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/aug\/25\/joe-walsh-challenges-trump-2020-republican-primary\">this &#8220;Guardian&#8221; article<\/a> records the arrival of a second challenger Joe Walsh who might make a bit more of an impression:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Walsh, a talk radio host and former congressman, said on Sunday he would challenge Donald Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.<\/p><p>\u201cWe have someone in the White House who we all know is unfit,\u201d Walsh said in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=60&amp;v=kXL1eS-DDrI\">a video<\/a> announcing his candidacy. Walsh said Trump \u201clies virtually every time he opens his mouth\u201d and places his own interests over those of the country.<\/p><p>Walsh, 57, served one term as a Republican representative from Illinois between 2011 and 2013 before losing his bid for re-election. Initially an enthusiastic supporter of Trump, he has latterly been one of the president\u2019s most vocal conservative critics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still over 20 politicians seeking to become the Democratic candidate in the US presidential election of 2020. I&#8217;ve seen most of them interviewed on &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; with Trevor Noah and any of them would be a dramatic improvement on the current occupant of the White House. Most are very fluent and many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24936"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24946,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24936\/revisions\/24946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}