lunes, 31 de enero de 2011

Los planes de Huntsman

Jonathan Martin y Alexander Burns (Politico.com) detallan los planes de Jon Huntsman:

(...) The White House expects Jon Huntsman, the U.S. Ambassador to China, to resign his post this spring to explore a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, top Democrats said.

GOP allies of Huntsman have already begun laying plans for a quick-start campaign should the former Utah governor decide to enter the ill-defined Republican field.

While Huntsman has no direct involvement in it, a group of operatives that could eventually comprise his strategy team has set up an entity called “Horizon PAC” to serve as a placeholder for his political apparatus.

The PAC will be run by Susie Wiles, a Florida-based Republican strategist who recently managed the campaign of newly-inaugurated Gov. Rick Scott.

Huntsman has avoided publicly discussing the possibility of a bid against the president who appointed him, but he’s sending signals that make clear he’s serious about a run now – not in 2016, when many top officials in both the GOP and the White House assumed he’d run.

Over the holidays, the ex-governor met with Sen. John McCain, whose 2008 presidential run Huntsman backed early on. In a discussion with the senator, who is the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, about a variety of issues, Huntsman made plain that he was eyeing a White House campaign in the near term, according to a source close to the senator.

A Republican briefed on plans for the political action committee said Huntsman’s final decision on whether to run is expected in June or July.

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1 comentario:

Anónimo dijo...

Jon Huntsman será un extraordinario candidato. Con muchísimo dinero y con una gestión extraordinaria como gobernador. Creo que fue en 2007 cuando fue elegido como el mejor gobernador de la Unión. Si Rasmussen habló de un tapado que ganaría la nominación pues señores aquí le tienen.