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Trump will face other Republican challengers on the Florida Republican primary ballot come March 17, 2020. Rep. Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld will be choices when voters go to the ballot box in Florida for the Republican primary.
Eight states have closed off the Republican primary, preventing these candidates from running in the state. But for Florida, where the voter disapproval rating of Trump is at 51 percent, the challengers will run. So Walsh and Weld could give Trump a serious challenge.
The Trump team rigged the rules in 37 states and territories in order to silence any form of dissent that might come up at the RNC convention. But this won’t be the case in Florida. Walsh and Weld had to either pay a fee to be on the ballot or gather signatures from 3,375 registered Republicans.
Walsh told CNN that Republican voters in primary states are fed up with Trump. He said, “They’re sick of his lies. Trump stood in front of his voters this week and made up a war on Thanksgiving. We have a President … who literally just makes shit up.”
Trump's GOP primary challenger Joe Walsh says Republican voters are tired of the President. "They're sick of his lies. Trump stood in front of his voters this week and made up a war on Thanksgiving. We have a President… who literally just makes s*** up"https://t.co/bCZWBYx11W pic.twitter.com/jsypY4ASgM
— New Day (@NewDay) November 28, 2019
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Walsh complained about the national Republican party shutting out challengers. “The Republican Party apparatus has been bound to one man through power plays and intimidation,” he wrote.
Previously, Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign manager, bragged to voters that “The Trumps will be a dynasty that will last for decades, propelling the Republican Party into a new party.”
And Weld previously told the New York Times, “Trump has not been bashful about his desire to avoid primaries or even elections.” Weld added that Trump “spoke admiringly of Xi Jinping getting rid of elections and talks about a third term for himself, which he has to know is not lawful. This is something that would be appropriate in a monarchy.”