“The existence of a credible challenger itself has been deadly,” said Fergus Cullen, a former New Hampshire GOP chairman who opposes Trump’s reelection. Bill Weld officially entered the 2020 Republican presidential primary on Monday, giving Donald Trump the first serious intra-party challenge to a sitting president since Pat Buchanan ran against George H.W. John Kasich (R) might do ― although he said most voters who support a challenger aren’t really doing it to support that challenger. Something akin to that occurred in 1992, when conservative commentator Buchanan mounted a last-minute challenge to Bush in New Hampshire. CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article said that Trump raised $30.3 million in the first three months of 2020.

Source: Huffington Post April 15, 2019 21:14 UTC