Mick Mulvaney, former chief of staff to Donald Trump says Donald Trump’s resurgence in the race for the Republican nomination was not inevitable.
Trump on Tuesday won the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary – the second state contest to find the party’s presidential candidate. With about 90% of the vote counted, the former president has a lead of 12 points over his last remaining rival Nikki Haley.
Meanwhile, in an interview, the former president’s budget director told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that “If you asked me a year ago, I thought there was no chance he could win.”
According to him, “the 6 January Capitol riot was looming very large at the time”, so I thought his (Trump) ceiling in the Republican Party was 35%. Clearly, it’s something closer to between 50 and 60%.”
Mulvaney said Trump had masterfully convert the barrage of criminal investigation he’s presently facing, to his advantage, “making it look like the Biden administration was out to get their political opponents”.
From this, he crafted a “compelling” message to voters, which Mulvaney says is: “‘Look at what they’re doing to me. Imagine: if they could do this to me, just think about what they could do to you. Vote for me and I’ll make sure that doesn’t happen.’
With the big win recorded in New Hampshire Republican presidential primary, it is increasingly likely that United States of America’s November presidential election will be a rematch between Trump and President Joe Biden.
