Appearing on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” to discuss the Republican Party’s inability to move on from Donald Trump to their own detriment, Washington Post journalist Jacqueline Alemany stated Republicans are conceding that the 2024 election is not going to go well for them.
As she put it, they are expecting it to be a “bloodbath.”
Speaking with the hosts about Trump’s interference in a possible border deal that is infuriating some GOP lawmakers, Alemany stated, “The House was pretty quiet last week as they were on recess. We’re going to be getting more incoming on that this week, especially after Trump’s, you know, trouncing of Nikki Haley in Iowa and then his victory in New Hampshire, where he is becoming a bigger and bigger voice that Republicans can’t really ignore and are starting to be — or will expect to be punished by Trump if they start to speak out against him and go against some of the things that he is advocating for.”
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She then went on to explain that Trump’s dominance of the party may hurt them going forward.
“But there are the same concerns that we saw in 2022 after the disappointing red wave, as everyone had expected, that ultimately didn’t materialize,” she elaborated. “Now, Speaker Johnson has essentially a two-vote majority where it’s nearly impossible to get anything through, especially if Trump touches it and advises members not to vote for it.”
“So I think that, you know, Republicans understand that they’re headed for another potential electoral bloodbath, but it’s this inevitable thing that they’ve sort of come to accept so long as Trump is the leader of the party,” she added, “That’s why you’re seeing retirements; people just sort of taking a bow and these nods of resignation.”
She later added, “There are concerns, but I don’t see anybody doing anything about it.”