{"id":341038,"date":"2017-12-25T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-to-face-challenge-in-2020-white-house-race\/"},"modified":"2017-12-25T16:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T15:40:27","slug":"presstv-trump-to-face-challenge-in-2020-white-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-trump-to-face-challenge-in-2020-white-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Trump to face challenge in 2020 White House race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A US Republican senator has warned that President Donald Trump may face competition to be the political party&#8217;s nominee for the 2020 presidential election if he decides to pursue a second term.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do believe if the president is running for re-election, if he continues on the path that he&#8217;s on, that that&#8217;s going to leave a huge swath of voters looking for something else,&#8221; Senator Jeff Flake, one of the few Republican lawmakers to publicly condemn Trump, said Sunday in an interview on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If he&#8217;s the Republican nominee again, we&#8217;re likely to see an independent candidate&#8221; in the November 2020 presidential election, said Flake, who announced in October that he was retiring in late 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s probably inviting a Republican challenge as well&#8221; for the 2020 primaries to tap a nominee for the Republican Party, he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Incumbent presidents are typically considered the presumptive nominee for their party at the end of the first&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/12\/25\/546778\/Trump-2020-presidential-election-Republican\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US Republican senator has warned that President Donald Trump may face competition to be the political party&#8217;s nominee for the 2020 presidential election if he decides to pursue a second term. &#8220;I do believe if the president is running for re-election, if he continues on the path that he&#8217;s on, that that&#8217;s going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-341038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}