“During his speech in Bedford, Bill Weld laid out a vision of returning the GOP to the "party of Lincoln." He had sharp words for its handling of the federal debt, and for the left-wing of the Democratic Party.
"We need the opposite of socialism in the federal budget. The two most important tasks are to cut spending and cut taxes," Weld said. He called for free trade, contracting social services to the private sector, managing college debt with free tuition for some displaced workers, and said the United States should rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement that Trump withdrew from in 2017. He also floated longer work visas for immigrants.
Weld became the Republican governor of Massachusetts in 1991, and was reelected to a second term in 1994 with 71 percent of the vote as a Republican in the deep blue state. Weld resigned his post in 1997 to become ambassador to Mexico, but was not confirmed. Weld also ran unsuccessfully against Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in 1996 and for governor of New York in 2005.
Weld's most recent political bid was a 2016 run for vice president on the Libertarian ticket alongside former presidential candidate and New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson.”