Commentary: Gov. Al Smith and the Anti-Trump Republicans - The Florida Capital Star
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As I’ve watched some of President Donald Trump’s former appointees and allies say they can’t support him in 2024, I was reminded of a similar scenario in American history.
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Commentary: Gov. Al Smith and the Anti-Trump Republicans
by Newt Gingrich, Gingrich 360 As I’ve watched some of President Donald Trump’s former appointees and allies say they can’t support him in 2024, I was reminded of a similar scenario in American history. In 1936, Former New York Gov. Al Smith decided that he could not support President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s re-election. Smith was a popular reform Democrat who had been elected Governor of New York four times. In 1928, he became the first C…