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    Trump's Republican Challengers Had An Uphill Climb. It Just Got Steeper

    Aware of how a primary challenge can hurt an incumbent president's re-election chances, the president's allies are moving to eliminate or scale back Republican primaries and caucuses in 2020.
    by Tamara Keith Sep 08, 2019 5 minutes

    Bill Weld and Joe Walsh are running for president. Mark Sanford is considering it. All are Republican former elected officials with little chance of winning. But, it seems, that isn't their only goal.

    "Every time a president has had an opponent within their own party ... that president has gone on to lose the general election," Weld, the former governor of Massachusetts, said in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition.

    Trump's opponents are well aware of this history and are hoping for a repeat of what happened to one-term presidents like George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. Each faced a major primary challenger from within their own party and each went on to lose re-election.

    President Trump's campaign and allies also know this history and are working to leave as little daylight for these challengers

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