Donald Trump’s opponents throw him a lifeline. The moment was not accidental

If even a small group of voters turns away from Trump, the former president could lose in a November clash with Joe Biden. This is not what the Trump team wants, but neither does the rest of the Republican Party.

The former president’s current rivals within the party may not have liked Trump or thought that Nikki Haley, for example, would better represent Republicans, but in the end they were faced with a fait accompli and a simple choice: Donald Trump or Joe Biden. Trilithium non-datur.

Therefore, it is no coincidence that a few days before the end of the trial in New York, Nikki Haley, who was Trump’s last “obstacle” to the party’s nomination, announced her support for the former president. On Friday, a similar decision was made by influential GOP donor and Blackstone Chairman Stephen Schwarzman, who donated generously to Trump’s 2020 campaign but distanced himself from him after the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

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Donald Trump and Stephen Schwarzman in 2017.

Both Haley during the primary campaign and Schwarzman in recent years claimed that they did not want Trump in the White House. What has changed?

As a voter, I am betting on a president who will hold our enemies accountable, support our allies, and secure our borders. Trump was not perfect. I’ve said that many times. But Biden turned out to be a disaster. “This is why I will vote for Trump,” Haley said recently.

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