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> Isn't that what all the republicans are saying now that their presidential candidate has lost? FYI, the Koch network did not actively support Trump in either
by javagram 6y ago
> Isn't that what all the republicans are saying now that their presidential candidate has lost?
FYI, the Koch network did not actively support Trump in either 2016 or 2020. So calling Trump as “their presidential candidate” could be misleading.
Charles Koch talked about Trump vs Hillary in 2016 as cancer vs heart attack and said publicly hillary might be a better president.
- webmaven 6y ago> > Isn't that what all the republicans are saying now that their presidential candidate has lost? > FYI, the Koch network did not actively support Trump in either 2016 or 2020. So calling Trump as “their presidential candidate” could be misleading. Sure, they didn't support Trump directly. But they really only supported GOP candidates, and whether those candidates in turn supported Trump doesn't seem to have ever been a factor. They certainly never explicitly supported any opposition to Trump, not even conservative opposition such as the Lincoln Project.
- javagram 6y agoYes, they didn’t actively support Trump opponents either. Had a non-Trump candidate won the 2016 GOP primary, they would have backed him or her in the presidential race - they canceled their plans to do so when Trump won.