Never Trumpers want a candidate, but Bill Weld is not the guy

Published February 26, 2019 5:00am ET



A loose coalition of Never Trump Republicans is uninspired by Bill Weld and hunting for a more formidable challenger willing to take on President Trump in 2020.

Weld, a former Massachusetts governor, is the only Republican to declare for the GOP presidential primary. But the mercurial 73-year-old endorsed Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 and left the GOP in 2016 to run as the Libertarian Party vice presidential nominee.

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