How Come the GOP is Afraid of Trump?

Yesterday I saw part of the CNN interview with Mike Pence. Now here’s a guy who is racking up 3% of the GOP primary votes in Iowa at the moment, who was ordered to commit a felony by his boss on January 6th, and he’s still afraid to say anything particularly negative about Donald Trump.

In fact, he happens to be doing exactly what almost all the GOP Presidential wannabes are doing in Iowa and elsewhere, namely, going out of the way to avoid saying anything in the slightest bit nasty or even reproachful about Trump. Meanwhile, Trump right now is getting 44% of the GOP primary polling in Iowa, which means that more than half the voters don’t want Trump to be running in 2024.

And it’s not as if the majority of the Iowa GOP don’t know enough about Trump to make up their minds about whether he should be on the national ticket again. It’s all the other candidates whom they may not know all that much about, but at least a solid majority know they don’t want Trump.

Incidentally, going all the way back to the beginning of July, when Iowa polls first began to appear, Trump has never scored above 45%.

Now it’s true that right now, the national GOP polls have Trump at around 55%. But not only is that a pretty slim majority for a former President who hasn’t stopped campaigning for re-election since the day he left…