Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2018 19:48:50 GMT -5
I'd be pleased to see her primary Trump in 2020 (she's be an infinitely less objectionable president to me if she won than Trump is), but I really don't think she will. However, she might be eyeing a 2024 run. (I think she'd be a stronger candidate than Pence.)
I can certainly imagine finances might be a motive. However, that still wouldn't explain the timing of the announcement a month before midterms (when she's not leaving until January), and the suddenness of it (it seemed that the WH didn't know in advance).
So I think something else is also going on, and I'm betting it's this: this could be rather an ideal time to leave if she were eyeing that 2024 run. She's just off the post-Kav thing, which is popular among base Republicans, and there isn't currently a yuuuuge obvious explosion everyone can point to as the reason for her departure. If, say, Mueller had just come down with a bombshell or the midterms were a disaster, everyone would immediately say that's why she was leaving. Something might happen to make her look bad. There might be an international incident that would make her departure more difficult or look worse. Etc.
Pretty much uniquely, then, among the people, who've departed the Trump administration, she's leaving on a high. The c.e.s love her, the Vinces and Robs like her, and people like me at least think that in Trumpworld, she's certainly one of the better ones. She's leaving on decent terms with Trump, too, so neither the Trump fans and non Trump fans among Republicans are pissed at her.
Given how volatile things tend to be in Trump world, all that might not be true in a month, or even a week. That might be why the announcement was so sudden.
So she's put in a perfectly adequate amount of time in the job, she's leaving on a high...yeah, I'd bet she's planning a 2024 run.
I can certainly imagine finances might be a motive. However, that still wouldn't explain the timing of the announcement a month before midterms (when she's not leaving until January), and the suddenness of it (it seemed that the WH didn't know in advance).
So I think something else is also going on, and I'm betting it's this: this could be rather an ideal time to leave if she were eyeing that 2024 run. She's just off the post-Kav thing, which is popular among base Republicans, and there isn't currently a yuuuuge obvious explosion everyone can point to as the reason for her departure. If, say, Mueller had just come down with a bombshell or the midterms were a disaster, everyone would immediately say that's why she was leaving. Something might happen to make her look bad. There might be an international incident that would make her departure more difficult or look worse. Etc.
Pretty much uniquely, then, among the people, who've departed the Trump administration, she's leaving on a high. The c.e.s love her, the Vinces and Robs like her, and people like me at least think that in Trumpworld, she's certainly one of the better ones. She's leaving on decent terms with Trump, too, so neither the Trump fans and non Trump fans among Republicans are pissed at her.
Given how volatile things tend to be in Trump world, all that might not be true in a month, or even a week. That might be why the announcement was so sudden.
So she's put in a perfectly adequate amount of time in the job, she's leaving on a high...yeah, I'd bet she's planning a 2024 run.
