{"id":2006240,"date":"2023-08-20T12:25:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-cassidy-thinks-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race\/"},"modified":"2023-08-20T12:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T16:26:01","slug":"bill-cassidy-thinks-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-cassidy-thinks-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy urges Trump to withdraw from 2024 race."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-cassidy-thinks-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2006240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Republican Senator Believes Trump \u200dShould\u2064 Drop Out of Presidential Race<\/h2>\n<p>One Republican senator believes that\u2064 former President Donald Trump should drop out \u200cof the presidential race due to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-desantis-super-pac-leans-into-war-on-woke-in-new-ad\/\" title=\"New ad by Pro-DeSantis super PAC embraces 'war on woke'.\">ongoing legal problems<\/a> but would\u200c still support the previous commander in \u200bchief \u2064if he got the nomination.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I think so,&#8221; Sen. Bill Cassidy \u2062(R-LA) said in an interview Sunday morning on CNN&#8217;s State of the Union, after being asked whether\u2064 Trump should end his campaign. &#8220;But obviously, that&#8217;s up to him. I mean, you&#8217;re just me asking my opinion. But he will lose to Joe\u200d Biden \u2064if \u2064you \u200blook at the current polls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Ongoing\u2063 Legal Troubles<\/h3>\n<p>Trump has been indicted in four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/waukesha-parade-attack-spotlights-the-danger-of-left-wing-prosecutors\/\" title=\"Waukesha Parade Attack Spotlights The Danger Of Left-Wing Prosecutors\">separate criminal cases<\/a> this year. He was indicted in New York over \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-cassidy-thinks-trump-should-drop-out-of-2024-presidential-race\/\" title=\"Cassidy urges Trump to withdraw from 2024 race.\">2016 hush-money scheme<\/a>, in Florida over his retention and handling of classified documents, in Jack Smith&#8217;s investigation into Trump&#8217;s alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his subsequent actions in Washington D.C., and\u200d in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis&#8217;s investigation into \u2064his alleged efforts to overturn Georgia&#8217;s 2020 \u200celection results.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If \u2062former President Trump ends up getting the \u200cnomination but\u2064 cannot win a general [election], that means we\u2019ll have \u2062four more years of policies which have \u200bled to very high inflation, to a loss of purchasing\u200d power for the average American equivalent to $10,000, and to many other things\u200c which I think have been deleterious to our future,&#8221; \u200bCassidy explained.<\/p>\n<p>The former president,\u2063 who denies any wrongdoing, now must defend himself against a combined 91 federal \u200dand \u2064state criminal counts after an \u2062Atlanta grand \u2063jury indicted him and \u200c18 co-defendants, including his final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, and former New York City Mayor and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani, earlier this month, following \u2064a two-year \u200dinvestigation into his efforts to overturn Georgia&#8217;s 2020\u2064 election results.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, who isn&#8217;t \u200da lawyer, said he believes the classified documents case \u2014 in which Special counsel Jack\u200b Smith\u200c charged Trump with 40 felonies that \u2062carry a \u2064maximum combined sentence of\u200d 450 years in\u2063 jail, including 32 counts of willful retention\u2063 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-rips-trump-for-doing-the-same-thing-the-obama-administration-did\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Rips Trump For Doing The Same Thing The Obama Administration Did\">national defense information<\/a>, violations of\u2064 the \u200cEspionage Act \u2014 is\u2062 the most serious case \u2063of Trump&#8217;s indictments.<\/p>\n<h3>Cassidy&#8217;s Stance on Trump and Biden<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200b senator \u200balso indicated\u2063 he&#8217;d vote for Trump, if he won the nomination, over Biden in a hypothetical\u2062 rematch of the 2020 election, though he indicated his belief that\u200c Biden would win a second term if Trump gets convicted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m going to vote for a Republican,&#8221;\u2062 Cassidy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Joe Biden needs to be\u200c replaced, but I don\u2019t think Americans will vote for \u200csomeone who&#8217;s been convicted,&#8221; the Louisiana senator explained, adding, &#8220;I\u2019m a Republican.\u200b I \u2064think any Republican on that stage in Milwaukee would do a better job \u2062than Joe Biden and so I want one of them to win,&#8221; he said,\u200b referencing the first GOP presidential candidate debate\u200b set to take place on \u200bWednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK \u2062HERE TO READ MORE FROM\u2063 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One GOP senator suggests Trump should withdraw from the race due to legal issues, yet would back him if he becomes the nominee. 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