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Trump Labels Republican Presidential Challengers 'the Three Stooges'

Reuters

   WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump dismissed three Republican
   challengers to his 2020 re-election as "the Three Stooges" on Monday
   and expressed doubt about ever agreeing to meet them on a debate stage.

   "They're a joke. They're a laughing stock," Trump told reporters when
   asked whether he would agree to debate them during the 2020 nominating
   contest.

   Three Republicans - former U.S. Representative Mark Sanford of South
   Carolina, former Massachusetts Governor William Weld and former U.S.
   Representative Joe Walsh of Illinois - are mounting long-shot campaigns
   to deny Trump the 2020 Republican presidential nomination.

   They face a formidable re-election effort mounted by Trump, who has
   consolidated his grip on the party's national and state machinery. A
   Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Aug. 19 and 20 showed 87% of Republicans
   approved of his performance in office.

   Sanford, who announced his candidacy on Sunday, said he did not believe
   Trump's popularity would last.

   "I sincerely believe Trump is misguided on a whole host of issues. He's
   out of sync with voters in South Carolina. I think he has lost touch
   with the very voters that sent him to office," he told MSNBC on Monday.

   Walsh has called Trump a bully and a coward who is unfit for office.
   Weld says another Trump term would be bad for America.

   Before he left the White House for a rally in North Carolina, Trump
   also said he planned at some point to put out an "extremely complete"
   statement on his finances. Trump has refused for years to release his
   tax returns despite a long history of presidential candidates detailing
   their finances.

   He said the financial statement would make clear he did not need
   whatever revenue was produced when U.S. military personnel stayed at
   his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland while on refueling stops.

   "I'm going to give out my financial condition, and you'll be extremely
   shocked that the numbers are many, many times what you think. I don't
   need to have somebody take a room overnight at a hotel," he said.
   

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