Trump’s Influence on the Republican Party Is Waning, Senator Toomey Says
- Pennsylvania Republican said the ex-president won’t win again
- ‘Conventional Republicans’ did well in the midterm elections
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Retiring Republican Senator Pat Toomey said Donald Trump’s influence on the party is diminishing “rapidly” and the former president has little chance of becoming the GOP presidential nominee in 2024.
Trump has announced he’ll make another run for the presidency. But Republicans fell well short of expectations during last month’s midterm elections and those losses, along with Trump’s 2020 presidential defeat and the GOP’s loss of the House and Senate in 2018, have demonstrated that voters -- and the party -- have moved past Trump.