Fox News contributor Marc Thiessen said Thursday that Donald Trump’s warning that donors to his Republican primary rival Nikki Haley will now be “excluded from the MAGA field” shows that the former president and current GOP front-runner “hasn’t learned any lessons from why he lost in 2020.”
“When he says, ‘Anyone who makes a contribution to Birdbrain will be permanently banned from MAGA,’ does that apply to Haley voters, too?” asked Thiessen, a chief speechwriter for former President George W. Bush and now a columnist for The Washington Post.
Thiessen then analyzed the data to explain why Trump’s current estrangement from Haley’s supporters could backfire if, as widely expected, she drops out of the race and Trump becomes the presumptive GOP nominee.
Trump lost to President Joe Biden in 2020 “because he lost 43,000 swing voters in three states and about 43,000 swing voters will decide this election next November,” Thiessen told “Special Report” host Bret Baier.
Trump has to win them over, the commentator continued. But “they are not MAGAs. They are Democrats or center-right Republicans who are not big fans of his. He has to win them over and expand his base, not shrink it,” as Republicans fear he is doing with his attacks on Haley voters.
He added: “You can’t ban someone from participating in MAGA if they want to be president of the United States again.”
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Fox News Contributor @marcthiessen:
“I’m concerned about his ability to win over Haley voters… when he says that anyone who makes a contribution to ‘Birdbrain’ will be permanently banned from MAGA, you know? Does that apply to Haley voters as well? It shows that he hasn’t learned anything… image.twitter.com/vQBYaCnpqS
— Republicans Against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 26, 2024
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