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  • The lights are on in the White House,

  • but no one’s at home.”

  • This guy is destroying the country.”

  • Put the Twitter away.”

  • President Trump is facing Republican challengers

  • to his re-election campaign.

  • Joe Walsh, Bill Weld and Mark Sanford.

  • They don’t have much of a chance at securing

  • their party’s nomination,

  • but primary challenges can lead to problems

  • for the incumbent.

  • So who’s trying to take Trump on?

  • First up: Joe Walsh.

  • These are not conventional times.

  • These are urgent times.

  • Let’s be real:

  • These are scary times.”

  • A one-term Tea Party congressman

  • who represented a Chicago suburb from 2011 to 2013.

  • Pisses me off!”

  • His style? It’s aggressive.

  • Even with his constituents.

  • Quiet for a minute!

  • Or I’m going to ask you to leave.”

  • He is also known for his offensive tweets.

  • “I wouldn’t call myself a racist,

  • but I would say, John, I’ve said racist things

  • on Twitter.”

  • He's shared his far-right views

  • on his nationally syndicated radio show.

  • When he was elected to Congress,

  • he showed up in Washington and refused

  • to play by their rules.”

  • In a recent program,

  • he slammed President Trump for his handling of immigration.

  • Donald Trump has royally screwed this thing up.”

  • His show is going off the air due to FCC rules

  • on airtime rights for presidential candidates.

  • So why is he running?

  • All Trump cares about is himself.”

  • "He’s a horrible human being."

  • He’s nuts,

  • he’s erratic,

  • he’s incompetent!”

  • Critics have said the same about him.

  • Next: Bill Weld.

  • He was the first to announce his run

  • against President Trump.

  • “I would be ashamed of myself

  • if I didn’t raise my hand and run.”

  • Weld is a lawyer and former Justice Department official.

  • He was the governor of Massachusetts during the ’90s,

  • and has switched party loyalties a few times,

  • endorsing Barack Obama for president in 2008

  • over John McCain, and then supporting

  • Mitt Romney in 2012.

  • He ran as a libertarian vice presidential candidate

  • in 2016.

  • “I hope to see the Republican Party assume once again

  • the mantle of being the party of Lincoln.”

  • Weld is a fiscal conservative,

  • but socially liberal.

  • He supports abortion rights, same-sex marriage

  • and legalizing marijuana.

  • He’s been campaigning in New Hampshire and Iowa,

  • hoping to best Trump in those early primary contests.

  • “I think were in something of an inflection point.”

  • And the former governor of South Carolina,

  • Mark Sanford, is also running.

  • We need a change in spending, debt and deficits,

  • and we need it now.”

  • He’s a vocal critic of President Trump,

  • and served a total of six terms

  • in the House of Representatives.

  • Ultimately, he lost his seat after a primary challenge

  • by a Trump-backed candidate.

  • His second term

  • as South Carolina governor was stained

  • by a scandal involving an extramarital affair.

  • Trump referenced this scandal in a tweet mocking

  • all three Republican candidates running against him.

  • So what are their chances at winning?

  • Not good.

  • As of now, Trump’s approval rating

  • is very high among Republicans.

  • However, primary challengers in recent decades have shown

  • that they can leave

  • the incumbent wounded in the general election.

The lights are on in the White House,

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