Never-Trumpers 2024

See also: Opposition to Donald Trump and Never Trump movement

Never-Trumpers 2024 are mostly globalists while pretending to be right-of-center, who reportedly oppose the nomination of Donald Trump for president in 2024. Their favorite anti-Trump candidate for president is Ron DeSantis, but also support Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Nikki Haley (SC). The globalists do not admit to their globalism, but admit to free trade and omit the top issues of conservatism when they state their agenda, and journalists apply the term "worldview" to them:

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“They’re going to prioritize the candidate who values free markets, free speech, and free trade,” said Ken Spain, a partner at Narrative Strategies who led corporate communications at Koch Industries. “The Koch network has typically supported candidates that reflect their worldview. Trump was the antithesis of that.”

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Failures of the Never-Trumpers 2024 include a disastrous performance in the Kentucky gubernatorial primary, where the candidate endorsed by Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz finished a distant third behind the first-place landslide winner, the Trump-endorsed Daniel Cameron, on May 16, 2023. Meanwhile, on May 26, 2023, anti-Trump Politico ran aitsheadline, "Are the Anti-Trump GOP Forces Starting to Implode?"

The full list of Never-Trumpers 2024 includes many self-centered groups and individuals, few of whom have had any political influence of any significance:

• Charles Koch - supports Convention of States which would open up rewriting the U.S. Constitution
• Americans for Prosperity
• Koch network - supports Convention of States which would open up rewriting the U.S. Constitution
• Club for Growth - derided by Trump as “The Club For NO Growth, an assemblage of political misfits, globalists, and losers"
• Nikki Haley
• Ron DeSantis
• Kenneth C. Griffin
• Stephen A. Schwarzman - private equity billionaire
• Ken Cuccinelli - supports Convention of States which would open up rewriting the U.S. Constitution
• Thomas Peterffy, a billionaire Hungarian-born trader who then backed Ron DeSantis but subsequently abandoned him also.
• Ronald Lauder
• defeated Rep. Liz Cheney - humiliated by a landslide defeat in her own Wyoming primary
• Principles First
• Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), a longtime Never-Trumper dating back to 2016
• Karl Rove (who was active in an Austin conference of the Texas Voter Engagement Project)
• New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu
• Rep. Mike Gallagher, all-in for the NATO war in Ukraine
• Sen. John Thune (R-SD), who needs globalist support to succeed the elderly Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as the Republican leader in the U.S. Senate.
• Mary McCord (DOJ), a deep state hack at the epicenter of all efforts to remove President Trump.

There was $16.7 billion spent on the 2022 midterm election campaigns, but the Koch network reportedly spent only $80 million nationwide, which is less than one-half of one percent of the total.

Speakers at anti-Trump Club for Growth 2023

The following spoke at the Never-Trump, globalist Club for Growth convention at the posh The Breakers hotel in West Palm Beach, Florida, the first week of March 2023, rather than at the pro-Trump CPAC:

• former VP Mike Pence
• Gov. Ron DeSantis
• Sen. Tim Scott
• Gov. Chris Sununu
• Gov. Kristi Noem
• former Gov. Nikki Haley, who also spoke at CPAC but was heckled there

Club for Growth donated $2M to DeSantis the last cycle. Our column can criticize how they (and other dark money groups like them) are not really that significant as that was merely 2% of DeSantis's fundraising, and nothing compared with the $16B raised and spent overall nationwide in the last elections.

Principles First Summit

Held in early March 2023 as a "counterweight" to Trump's triumphant appearance at CPAC, the Principles First Summit was a pathetic gathering of Republican opponents to Donald Trump:

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It’s been roughly six years since the dawn of the Never Trump movement. And, over that time period, it has not had much success — at least when it comes to reforming the party to which its members once belonged.

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