“The people who most needed to come forward and tell the truth were cowed into silence, including me. He recalls: “It’s obviously very ironic coming from me but, in the aftermath of all of that, I came to the conclusion that the biggest threat to our democracy was anonymity. Yet he was finding the secrecy an unbearable burden and, after much agonising, unmasked himself in October 2020. Taylor quit the administration and followed up with a book, A Warning, attributed to “Anonymous: A Senior Trump Administration Official”, another chronicle of incompetence and malevolence in the White House. Guessing the identity of the author became a Washington parlour game, with Trump demanding the Times unmask him (“TREASON?” he tweeted). The article made public what cabinet members were saying in private: Trump was unstable and unfit. In September 2018, Taylor wrote his column in the Times, under the headline “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration”. After Trump’s election he joined the homeland security department, eventually becoming chief of staff to the secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen. He started in the George W Bush administration and was a senior aide on Capitol Hill. Taylor insists he hates politics but was inspired to work in government after the September 11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. With Trump once again charging towards the White House and vowing revenge, Taylor sees the cloak of anonymity he once embraced as a fundamental threat to democracy. Showing the zeal of a convert, the man who for a time was at the centre of the biggest mystery in Washington has become an apostle of radical transparency. So yeah, I try to lower my voice in public.”Įven so, Taylor has proudly attached his name to a second book, Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, which combines raw politics with uncomfortable disclosures from his own life. “It’s been my experience the past couple of years that when someone notices you and they come over and say, ‘Are you such and such person?’, you don’t know if that’s going to be someone who says thank you for what you did or someone spits in your face and tries to punch you. What if his unvarnished views on the former president trigger a display of Maga air rage? With the grateful couple safely ensconced, Taylor carries on talking. At one point he breaks off to make sure two fellow passengers get to sit together. The 35-year-old conducts part of a phone interview with the Guardian while boarding a flight from Chicago to north-west Michigan. Back in October, when the question was first posed, Trump held a 64% to 29% edge.Today, Taylor is speaking openly to anyone who will listen. While much recent polling has shown DeSantis dispatching Trump if the field were limited to just those two candidates, McLaughlin’s survey shows Trump topping DeSantis handily, with 58% backing against just 36% for the Governor. Mitt Romney had 2%, and Marco Rubio was one of eight names who got 1%. Vice President Mike Pence had 5%, good for third place, followed by former Rep. Trump’s 48% was more than double DeSantis’ 23%. 9-14 showed Trump winning both in a crowded field and a head-to-head with DeSantis. This suggests enthusiasm among certain conservative intelligentsia for DeSantis may not have translated fully to potential voters yet.Ī McLaughlin survey Dec. In two national surveys of a thus-far hypothetical 2024 Republican Presidential Primary, the former President bested the Florida Governor in a crowded field, conforming with other recent polling. Two newly released surveys suggest former President Donald Trump may be a tough out for Ron DeSantis in 2024. Trump continues to prevail in a lot of national polls despite DeSantis surge. It's just stinging election losses that have them talking this way. If he (and the GOP entire) had any integrity they would have been talking this way years ago. That said? McConnell's an opportunistic coward just like Cruz, and if Donald's political fortunes manage to rise it means Mitch will be right back on his knees kissing Trump's ass. “And oddly enough, even though that subset of voters did not approve of President Biden, they didn’t have enough confidence in us in several instances to give us the majority we needed.” “We lost support that we needed among independents and moderate Republicans, primarily related to the view they had of us as a party - largely made by the former president - that we were sort of nasty and tended toward chaos,” McConnell said. “The former president may have other things to do.” “We can do a better job with less potential interference,” he said. "Here’s what I think has changed: I think the former president’s political clout has diminished,” McConnell told NBC News on Wednesday in a wide-ranging interview in his Capitol Hill office.
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