Candidate Bill Weld, who wants to challenge Donald Trump in the Republican primaries for the 2020 presidential election, denounced Sunday the "racism" of the American president, saying it could mean the end of the American conservative party.
He wants to help underpaid employees, defend the environment and unify Americans, but Bill Weld, 74, a former governor of Massachusetts, may be the candidate with the least chance of running in the presidential election. to the imposing electoral machine of Donald Trump, who already has the full support of the Republican Party.
On the sidelines of an election rally at a large fun fair in Des Moines, Iowa, he issued a stern warning to the party. "If the Republican party in Washington does not expressly deny its racist tirades, they risk a massive defeat in 2020," he predicted to the press. The president, he added, has blood on his hands after the shooting in El Paso, Texas, which killed 22 people last weekend, as the shooter's racist manifesto "seems directly inspired by the Trump speech ". "So yes, I link him specifically to the killing of El Paso, but also more broadly to the atmosphere that leads to all these killings," he added.
"The rich are too rich, the poor are too poor"
Donald Trump and his advisers have decided to "divide the country in every possible way," instilling anger and hatred among Americans. "This is the opposite direction of the one we must take," he proclaimed. Bill Weld, who is close to libertarians - vigorously opposed to any form of intervention by the federal state - has expressed surprisingly progressive positions. "The rich are too rich, the poor are too poor, and it's not good for social cohesion," he said.
He mocked Donald Trump's views on climate change as a "hoax" and rebelled against the US president's "inhumanity" over immigration issues. During his election rally in front of a few dozen spectators, Bill Weld called Trump false republican "because it is not for budgetary rigor". Bill Weld, however, is very unlikely to get his party's nomination for the presidential election: according to a survey conducted on the sidelines of the Des Moines fair, which was also attended by about 20 Democratic candidates, Donald Trump received 97% voting intentions of Republicans.