PITTSBURGH (100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA) According to high profile Republicans, former President Donald Trump is “days away” from announcing his 2024 presidential campaign.
Trump had a single term as President of the United States that was rocky and controversial to say the least.
A pair of impeachment trials, the ladder of which resulting from the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, are just the tip of the iceberg.
While Trump is preparing to announce his next run for president, other Republicans are warning that he should not lead the Republican party.
Retiring Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey, a Republican himself, said that his party should not nominate Trump as their presidential candidate in 2024.
“I think after what happened post-2020 election… the president’s behavior was completely unacceptable.”
For over two decades, Toomey has had a staunch conservative record, and is not planning on seeking reelection as senator in 2022.
“I think that the future of our party is to be a party of ideas, and not to be a party about any one individual, and I think we will learn a lot from the next set of primaries,” Toomey said.
Toomey voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial regarding the role he played in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
Toomey would go on to say that he himself is a conservative Republican, but believes that former President Trump was drifting away from the party and their stances.
“It is President Trump who departed from Republican orthodoxy and conservative orthodoxy in a variety of ways. I stuck to the conservative views that I’ve had for a long time, he had a different point of view on matters.”
Despite being out of office and no longer in a political role, not even able to post to most social medias, Trump still has a strong following within the Republican party.