Mixed Blessing? Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss Says It 'Has to Be' Trump in White House in 2025

Sometimes in politics, one takes one's endorsements where one finds them. In Donald Trump's case, amid his ongoing legal problems, he scored an endorsement from overseas. On Monday, the United Kingdom's former Prime Minister Liz Truss opined to the British news radio station LBC that the American presidential election's result "has to be" former President Trump in the White House for a non-consecutive second term. But this may well be a mixed blessing for President Trump.

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss said Monday that it “has to be” former President Trump in the White House after the 2024 election, endorsing Trump for the office while laying criticism on President Biden.
“I don’t think Biden has been particularly supportive to the United Kingdom. I think he’s often on the side of the [European Union],” Truss said on British news radio station LBC. “And I certainly think I would like to see a new president in the White House.”
Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in the country’s history, has been a major backer of American conservative politics since leaving 10 Downing Street in 2022.
While never before endorsing Trump by name, she spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington in February and wrote an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal calling for a Republican president.

PM Truss was on the radio program to promote her new book, "Ten Years to Save the West," which is being released on Tuesday.

The timing of this endorsement is almost certainly not deliberate, but it does come on the first day of President Trump's New York "hush money" trial. If you're not following RedState's live update thread on this trial, you should be:

Is there a catch? There's always a catch.

Truss’s 50-day stint as prime minister was mostly marked by its chaos, failing to pass a substantial government budget and hampered by a rotating Cabinet. Her leadership also saw the British pound fall to its lowest value ever compared to the U.S. dollar, with economic analysts blaming her unpopular tax proposals. At the end of her premiership, she was the most unpopular prime minister in Britain’s history, according to public opinion polls.

PM Truss credits President Trump for many achievements in his first term, pointing out his tax cuts, regulation cuts, booming economy, and expansion of the energy sector, correctly noting that the United States enjoyed significant growth from 2017 to 2021. But it's not certain whether her endorsement will help or hurt Trump on the margins, where presidential elections are decided, although if anything is damaging Trump's chances among uncommitted voters, it's more likely the ongoing lawfare rather than an endorsement from an unpopular British politician.

As of this writing, former President Trump still holds a razor-thin lead over Joe Biden in a head-to-head contest in the RealClearPolitics average while maintaining a lead in six of seven "Top Battleground" states, also in the RealClearPolitics average. It's a long way to November, there are still legal cases outstanding, and this is still shaping up to be one of the more interesting presidential elections in American history.

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