Vice President Mike Pence appears to be cementing his status as President Trump’s heir apparent, promoting himself as the conduit between Republican donors and the administration. Credit Eric Thayer for The New York Times
New York Times: Republican Shadow Campaign for 2020 Takes Shape as Trump Doubts Grow
WASHINGTON — Senators Tom Cotton and Ben Sasse have already been to Iowa this year, Gov. John Kasich is eyeing a return visit to New Hampshire, and Mike Pence’s schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke that he is acting more like a second-term vice president hoping to clear the field than a No. 2 sworn in a little over six months ago.
President Trump’s first term is ostensibly just warming up, but luminaries in his own party have begun what amounts to a shadow campaign for 2020 — as if the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue weren’t involved.
The would-be candidates are cultivating some of the party’s most prominent donors, courting conservative interest groups and carefully enhancing their profiles. Mr. Trump has given no indication that he will decline to seek a second term.
But the sheer disarray surrounding this presidency, the intensifying investigation by the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and the plain uncertainty about what Mr. Trump will do in the next week, let alone in the next election, have prompted Republican officeholders to take political steps that are unheard-of so soon into a new administration.
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WNU Editor: Many in the Republican Party have made no secret that they do not support President Trump .... so it is natural they are looking (and hoping for) someone to replace him. I also think that many in Washington .... and that includes both political parties, pundits and consultants, and the media were disturbed by the turnout for President Trump's Huntington speech in West Virginia on Thursday. After all the non-stop negative publicity that has gone on forever concerning President Trump .... he was able to fill .... with little if any publicity .... a 9,000 seat auditorium to the rafters with thousands waiting outside in a sleepy town on a weekday .... Trump energizes WV supporters with Huntington speech (Herald-Dispatch). No politician who is in office today can come even remotely close to drawing in those type of spontaneous crowds .... no one. For those who run Washington .... that must send a chill up there spines.
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