GOP Senator Tells Trump: Get Out Of Presidential Race

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy described the case against former President Donald Trump for allegedly mishandling classified documents as “almost a slam dunk” and said he thinks Trump should drop out of the 2024 presidential race, Shawma Mizelle reported for CNN.

The comments from Cassidy, one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict Trump in 2021 at his second impeachment trial, are some of his strongest criticism of Trump to date. I Photo: U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy Facebook

“I mean, you’re just asking me my opinion. But he will lose to Joe Biden, if you look at the current polls,” he told CNN’s Kasie Hunt on “State of the Union.”

He added: “I think any Republican on that stage in Milwaukee will do a better job than Joe Biden. And so I want one of them to win. If former President Trump ends up getting the nomination, but cannot win a general, that means we will have four more years of policies which have led to very high inflation … and to many other things which I think have been deleterious to our country’s future,” the Louisiana senator said.

The comments from Cassidy, one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict Trump in 2021 at his second impeachment trial, are some of his strongest criticism of Trump to date.

They come as charges against Trump continue to dominate the GOP primary. Of the 91 charges against Trump in the four criminal cases spanning four different jurisdictions, Cassidy called those related to mishandling classified documents “almost a slam dunk.”

He noted the recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where Trump discussed holding secret documents he had not declassified. “If it’s proven, we may have a candidate for president who’s been convicted of a crime,” Cassidy said, Andrew Millman also reported for CNN.

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