Everything was ready Tuesday night at Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion for “a big announcement” that had the United States in suspense, but above all the Republican party.
The former president had planned to announce his candidacy for the White House in 2024, despite the defeat of his candidates in the elections on Tuesday 8 November and persistent calls from party authorities that he abandon the idea of running for a new term.
On Monday last week, one day before the midterm elections that predicted a large Republican victory, the tycoon promised a “big announcement” at his luxury residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, at 9 a.m.
Trump had hinted and everything indicated that he would run again for presidentsurrounded by an overwhelming wave of votes across the country.
But contrary to expert and poll forecasts, Republicans lost key seats, didn’t win the Senate as they would have liked, and they would have a very close victory in the House of Representatives. Moreover, most of Trump’s proposed candidates – most of them famous outsiders with radical positions – have been defeated.
In this context, various voices of the party establishment have made themselves heard to ask the tycoon to give up or at least postpone his decision to the second round of the elections in Georgia, on December 6, where a tight race is underway to define a seat in the Senate.
unpredictable
But he went ahead with the deed at his home. It seems he doesn’t want to tamper with “perhaps the most important speech ever given in US history,” as he boasted. His adviser Jason Miller said Trump would make a “very professional, very formal” statement, along with a group of supporters “with signs.”
However, as the tycoon is unpredictable, you could change your mind at any time and cancel the event or talk about anything but your application. He knows that all eyes are on him right now, and he knows the importance of expectations and media management.
But especially Trump seek his revenge. Despite all evidence to the contrary, he is convinced that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that he should have been re-elected. He has never acknowledged Joe Biden’s victory, he has encouraged his followers to deny the results and in these two years he has accumulated the hope of repeating the duel with the Democrat, who said he would decide whether to run again at the beginning of the next year.
Trump left the White House, entrenched there during the transition, without passing the baton to his successor, and after his supporters violently stormed Congress.
He did not take refuge in ostracism or set about organizing a museum or library with his legacy, like most former US presidents. He remained in the political arena, continuing to raise funds and attending political events around the country.
inflation and malaise
He was encouraged by the growing discontent of Americans with the performance of the economy and especially with inflation, which reached levels not seen for 40 years. And without questioning his leadership in the party, it was he who anointed most of the candidates in the midterms. Many of them have denied the election results, like the tycoon.
But his gamble failed and now his leadership is being questioned, especially since he appeared a new star on the horizonthe governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who won his re-election by more than 20 points.
“This is basically the third straight election that Donald Trump has had us lose the race, and it’s three strikes and you’re out” (in baseball), said Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who also sounds like a presidential candidate.
Along these lines, another former Republican nominee, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, said Trump had promised them they would get tired of winning. “Now we are tired of losing,” he said.
Meanwhile, Trump looks on in anger and despair what the conservative media likes The Wall Street Journal Y The New York Post turn away from him and wrap around DeSantis, who The New Yorker He called him “a Trump with a brain.”
Trump has doubled down on fraud. He called Tuesday’s results a scam and blamed Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. “He screwed up the midterm elections and everyone despises him,” he said.
There are those who think that Trump’s goal of returning to the White House is to protect himself judicially. he is subject of numerous federal investigations: one on the January 6 attack, another on his handling of confidential documents recovered from his Mar-a-Lago home, and a third on his fledgling social media company, Truth Social, which he started after being suspended on Twitter. He also faces trial in New York for tax fraud and tax evasion from his real estate company.
However, many legal experts say a presidential run would not carry any special protections for the 76-year-old tycoon.
as revealed The Washington PostTrump expects his 2024 bid to have a smaller staff and budget than that of 2020, advisers say, as the tycoon complained that his previous failed campaign had too many people and spent too much money.
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