Mary Trump, the niece of former President Donald Trump, offered her thoughts last week on who she believes will win the Republican presidential primaries.
What Happened: As of now, Donald Trump will most likely win the GOP nomination, Mary Trump said while speaking to Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s RN Breakfast.
Mary Trump, a psychologist, said the Republican Party has done very little to separate itself from the former president. She also added that no matter who runs against the former president in the primaries, at least 30% of Republicans have indicated that they will not vote for anybody other than Donald Trump. Therefore, the businessman-turned-president starts with a huge advantage, she said.
“They've done absolutely nothing to ensure that Donald can't win the nomination,” Mary Trump said.
Asked why she thinks it is dangerous to ignore her uncle's chance of winning the primaries, Mary Trump said she believes that the general dismissal of the former president's behavior is one way of normalizing him and that the American media has covered him "like any candidate.”
“They don't focus on his extremism, his radicalism, his fascism, his authoritarianism,” she said.
In other cases, people have treated the former president as a joke who is not worth taking seriously, but that approach did not work against him at all in 2015, Mary Trump noted, adding that Donald Trump continues to be the leader of the Republican Party.
“So we cannot look up the other way as tempting as it might be,” she said.
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In assessing her uncle's behavior, Mary Trump said he has not matured and is the same person now as he was as a child. She added that the former president acts the same when he is in a room with two people or in front of a crowd of 10,000 people. “He basically has no intellectual curiosity, and he basically continues to behave in ways that always benefited him throughout his life,” she said.
Trump May Be Unchallenged: Mary Trump believes that the other Republican candidates may not be able to do enough to push her uncle out of the nomination.
“Donald is ruthless in a way that his opponents have never seemed able to grapple with. Nobody has effectively been able to push back against him in the Republican Party, and I don't see any potential candidates — even [Ron] DeSantis — being able to figure that out,” she said.
Mary Trump, who hosts the “Mary Trump Show” podcast, said that if DeSantis has any political savvy, he should sit out of the upcoming election and wait until 2028 to make a bid for the presidency.
“I think, if anything, if anybody does seriously challenge ... it won't work out well for that person, and it will likely tear the Republican Party apart,” said said.
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