Mod: For you history buffs there used to be something called the White Patriot Party a few years back, which was a Ku Klux Klan fronted organization (link). Perhaps Donald prefers a shorter name. Trump Has Discussed Starting a New Political Party (Wall Street Journallink): President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party, according to people familiar with the matter, an effort to exert continued influence after he leaves the White House.
Mr. Trump discussed the matter with several aides and other people close to him last week, the people said. The president said he would want to call the new party the “
Patriot Party,” according to sources.
Mr. Trump has feuded in recent days with several Republican leaders including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), who on Tuesday said Mr. Trump deserved blame for provoking the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. Polls show Mr. Trump retains strong support among rank-and-file GOP voters. The White House declined to comment.
It’s unclear how serious
Mr. Trump is about starting a new party, which would require a significant investment of time and resources. The president has a large base of supporters, some of whom were not deeply involved in
Republican politics prior to
Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Third parties have typically failed to draw enough support to play a major role in national elections. Any effort to start a new party would likely face intense opposition from Republican party officials, who would chafe at the thought of Mr. Trump peeling off support from GOP candidates.
Trump’s “Patriot Party” Would Doom GOP (
Daily Koslink):
President Donald Trump proposed forming a new “
Patriot Party” separate from the
Republican Party on Tuesday night. The report from the
Wall Street Journal cites anonymous
Trump aides and associates as its sources.
If the soon to be former president were to invest serious resources or time into a party apart from the Republicans as opposed to an intra-party organization like the Tea Party, it could pose doom for them in future elections.
Trump suggesting that he could run as an independent or with a third party is not new. During the 2016
Republican primaries, he infamously threatened to run as an independent if he lost and initially refused to commit to supporting the eventual
Republican nominee during the first primary debate. Pollsters even conducted three-way polls of the general election with
Trump as an independent candidate, showing that the prospect would be electoral poison for the
Republicans.
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