Former President Donald Trump is expected to announce a new candidacy for the presidency of the United Statesignoring calls from within the Republican Party to step aside after its Loyalists’ poor performance in the midterm elections.
The The 76-year-old tycoon summoned the press to his Florida mansion for a “big announcement” at 9:00 PM ET this Tuesday.
“President Trump will announce Tuesday that he is running for president,” said Jason Miller, one of his advisers, who predicted his speech would be “very professional, very formal“.
Although he has barely hidden his desire to return to the presidency in recent months, Trump could change his mind at the last minute, since he has often been unpredictable.
But delaying the announcement, as suggested by some of his advisers, would be very inconvenient, since Trump himself has announced that his “perhaps the most important speech pronounced in American history”.
The political rise of Donald Trump
In 2016, Trump and the Republicans came to power, took control of the White House and they held a majority in both chambers congressional.
But Democrats won back the House overwhelmingly in 2018 after a campaign centered largely on Trump’s caustic style.
The former president later he lost re-election in 2020 –despite still refusing to accept defeat– against Joe Biden, while the Democrats also managed to take control of the Senate, because despite being divided into 50 seats on each side, they secured the majority with the runoff from Vice President Kamala Harris.
Leaving Washington in chaos shortly after his supporters stormed the Capitol, Trump chose to stay in the political arena. fundraising and events all over the country.
In his campaign towards Tuesday’s general election, in which Democrats were expected to lose, Trump made denial of the 2020 election results a critical litmus test for candidates to win their influential political support.
But the forecast of a Republican “red wave” has not materialised, given that they have not obtained a majority in the Senate and in the Chamber, where some ballot boxes have yet to be closed, they should reach a narrow majority.
those results he emboldened Trump’s Republican detractors and undermined most of his political momentum leading up to the campaign launch on Tuesday.
“It’s basically the third straight election that Donald Trump has cost us the race, and it’s three strikes and you’re out,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a critic of the tycoon, told CNN on Sunday.
Trump’s response was to double down on unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud midterm – he said on his Truth Social platform that the results were a “scam”— and holding Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell accountable for the poor performance.
“It’s Mitch McConnell’s fault,” he exploded, adding that the Kentucky senator had misallocated campaign funds and pursued a flawed legislative agenda.
“He’s screwed up the middlemen and everyone despises him,” added Trump, who has long disagreed with McConnell.
Tuesday’s announcement is seen by many as a way to do just that take the breath away from potential rivals in the Republican interiorLike Ron DeSantis, Florida’s sweeping re-elected governor and a rising star who also gained the backing of Rupert Murdoch’s conservative media empire.
Donald Trump’s judicial obstacle
Trump’s renewed run for the White House could also be hampered by multiple judicial investigations against him, which could lead to his disqualification.
These include allegations of fraud against his family business, his role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and his handling of confidential documents at his private Florida residence, which was raided by the FBI in August.
But the ex-president knows about scandals and he survived two political trials to Congress.
The 2024 election could also be a repeat of 2020, as Biden reiterated Wednesday that he intends to run for re-election, though he made it clear he would make a final decision next year.
Despite strong midterm results, some Democrats they are demanding that Biden step aside because of his 80 years and its unpopularity.
The author is an AFP journalist
Source: Clarin
