Sen. Bill Cassidy Spurns Trump, Says He Should Drop Out Of 2024 Race—'He will lose to Joe Biden'
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Just when we thought no Republican could more flagrantly end their career in a single interview after Tucker Carlson ended former Vice-President Mike Pence’s ambitions, Senator Bill Cassidy has proverbially seemed to say ‘hold my beer.’ Cassidy already on the outs with the Louisiana GOP after voting in favor of 45th President and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump’s impeachment probably could’ve faded quietly into obscurity and maybe with enough Bayou Democrats backing him could’ve eked out one more term, but on CNN’s State of the Union Cassidy made his antipathy for America First voters all too clear, not only suggesting Trump should drop out of the race, calling his conviction in his Mar-A-Lago document indictment a “slam dunk” and suggesting (contrary to recent polling) that Republicans won’t vote for Trump if he’s in prison.
Not only did he thusly torch a vast swatch of any GOP support he may have hoped for, he then turned around and said he’d vote for Trump anyway, annihilating any possibility of gaining Democrat or leftist independent support. In the industry we call this foreshadowing.
Aaron Rupar posted the exchange with CNN’s Kasie Hunt to X commenting, “Sen. Bill Cassidy says Trump is likely to be convicted in the documents case and says he should drop out of the race -- but then in the next breath indicates he'll still vote for him anyway.”
Sen. Bill Cassidy says Trump is likely to be convicted in the documents case and says he should drop out of the race -- but then in the next breath indicates he'll still vote for him anyway pic.twitter.com/RUb9hKWyQh
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 20, 2023
According to Politico, Cassidy spoke with Hunt Sunday and when asked if Trump should withdraw from the race answered, “I think so,” adding “But obviously, that’s up to him. I mean, you’re just asking my opinion but he will lose to Joe Biden if you look at the current polls.”
Cassidy said that another GOP candidate would be better equipped to defeat incumbent Democrat Joe Biden in 2024 and cited this as the most important thing for Republicans to focus on. He claimed “I don’t think Americans will vote for someone who has been convicted,” despite recent polling from the Premise cited by DC Enquirer that shows even a projected 17 percent drop in support would “Fascinatingly…give Trump a theoretical net 39 percent of the vote, still enough to defeat Joe Biden's 34 percent.”
He told Hunt,
“I think Joe Biden needs to be replaced, but I don’t think Americans would vote for someone who’s been convicted, so I’m just very sorry about how all of this is playing out,” the Louisiana senator said.
Cassidy gained massive disrepute and was even censured by the Louisiana GOP when he voted in favor of the Second Impeachment of Donald Trump following the January 6th Capitol Riot.