Outgoing Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) isn’t backing down from his call for Republicans to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.
Flake, as IJR previously reported, resigned somewhat dramatically with a speech that was highly critical of the president, and he has remained a controversial figurewithin the GOP since.
"Somebody does need to challenge the President," from within the GOP in 2020, Jeff Flake, who did not rule out running himself, tells CNN. "[T]he country needs to be reminded what it means to be conservative… and what it means to be decent." pic.twitter.com/ckpGNjJach
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 29, 2018
While appearing on CNN on Friday, Flake told reporter Jim Acosta that “somebody” needs to challenge Trump and that he hadn’t ruled out the possibility that that person would be him.
“The country needs to be reminded of what it means to be conservative — certainly on the Republican side — and what it means to be decent as well because we need a lot more of that in our politics,” Flake said. – READ MORE