As Cheney and her allies stare down long, if not impossible, odds in toppling Trump from his perch as GOP kingmaker and likely 2024 nominee, some of them say they’ll settle for trying to make Trump unpalatable to a general electorate in two years instead of a fatalistic bid to wrench the party from his grasp.
“Why couldn’t she [Liz Cheney] shift some fundamental dynamic? Not to win a Republican primary, but to peel off voters or to help motivate soft Democrats,” Sarah Longwell, the executive director of Republican Accountability Project, told ABC News.
“Politics now is all about margins. It’s about convincing people at the margins,” Longwell said…
“If there was a lesson to be learned from 2016, it was, especially on the Republican side, that the voters were not going to be told by the elites who they were going to nominate,” added a former Trump campaign official. “It’s that kind of campaign against the elites, to saying, ‘No, we will decide who we nominate and who we vote for, and it doesn’t matter what the elites or the dynasties tell us.'”
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