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New Hampshire Today: Interview with Sean Spicer

In an interview with Chris Ryan and Justin McIsaac, Sean Spicer, the first White House Press Secretary for President Trump, discusses how the Trump Presidency will be remembered, disputes the assessment that Trump lost the 2020 election because he was unable to increase his support among the independent voters, recounts what the initial days of the Trump administration were like, and projects where the Republican Party and Donald Trump goes from here.

Sean Spicer served as the White House Press Secretary and as White House Communications Director under President Donald Trump from December 2016 to July 2017. Spicer was communications director of the Republican National Committee from 2011 to 2017, and its chief strategist from 2015 to 2017.

People who are right of center, according to Sean Spicer, will consider President Trump to be the man who was successful in implementing a conservative agenda by protecting life, appointing conservative judges, and cutting taxes and regulations. However, people on the left, who never considered Trump to be elected legitimately, will have a very different assessment than Republican voters who still give Trump high approval ratings even after the attack on the Capitol Building.

When he was asked if President Trump lost the 2020 election because he tried too hard to appeal to his right-wing base, Sean Spicer pointed to an increase of his support by 12 million voters from the 2016 election. Trump also increased his support among non-white voters. However, Spicer agrees that Donald Trump actually did a better job of growing Joe Biden’s base than he did of increasing the Republican base. In the final analysis, Biden won because the Democrats did a better job of getting out the vote. In hindsight, Sean Spicer suggested that the Trump campaign should have done more to appeal to Black voters and suburban women, and he admits that, for many people, Trump’s tone and rhetoric undid whatever policy successes which he may have achieved.

Sean Spicer gives an insider’s view to the formation of Trump’s administration in 2017. It was a campaign like no other; and, consequently, it produced an administration like no other. Donald Trump had no government experience and neither did his election team. The people who made up his administration at the outset, though successful in their own careers, had little or no government experience and had never worked together. When this dispirit group is combined with a president who is used to being a corporate CEO who does whatever he wants, there was a difficult adjustment period.

At this point in time, Spicer isn’t sure if there is a rift in the Republican Party. The lack of turnout in the recent runoff election in Georgia and the Trump loyalty tests which are being applied in the House of Representatives seem to indicate that for many Republicans loyalty to Donald Trump takes precedence over party loyalty. He believes that some initiatives taken by Biden administration will unite the Republicans.

In conclusion, when he was asked specifically if Donald Trump will run again in 2024, Sean Spicer said, “I can make a solid argument going both ways. Donald Trump hates to back away from a fight; and, after walking away from this job, it’s hard to jump back in.”


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