This time the staging was not as surprising as it was in 2015, when Donald Trump announced his first candidacy descending cinematically down an escalator in one of his buildings in New York.
This Tuesday, however, he did it in a ballroom of his luxurious villa in Palm Beach, Florida, where his daughter Tiffany had married just a few days earlier. That same house that was raided by FBI agents looking for confidential documents stolen from the White House.
In this scenario, Trump announced it He will run for president in 2024.
has already made history
Two years after the election, he rang the initial bell for the Republican race and has already made history: No successful US presidential candidate – who hasn’t been in government – has launched a presidential bid a long time ago of the elections. But it is known that the political seal of Donald Trump is precisely to break the rules.
Nothing is further from the conventional: even Trump becomes the first former president to run again by Theodore Roosevelt and the first since Grover Cleveland to do so after losing re-election.
Trump is rowing against everything and he trusts that he can repeat the old Trump-Biden duel of 2020 it left him traumatised for having suffered a defeat that he never acknowledged and that most of his followers continue to deny.
He seeks to take revenge and seize the initiative after last week’s unfortunate election on Tuesday, which was much worse than he expected. Wants regain the leadership of the party which today is threatened by the establishment and by new figures who appear more strengthened. Above all, search a protective shield for the pile of lawsuits that overlooks.
The Republican Party’s disappointing results in the midterm elections triggered efforts within the group to outrun Trump. Is that, despite the general malaise about the performance of the economy and inflation, the Republicans they failed to regain the senate and they prevailed by a slim margin in the House of Representatives.
On Monday, David McIntosh, chairman of the Conservative Growth Club, said an investigation by the group showed Trump’s attacks on other Republicans are hurting his support and joined calls to delay your announcement until after the Georgia runoff.
Many of the party’s top donors, who often weren’t Trump’s biggest fans, started private conversations about the matter the best way to put it aside for a new generation of leaders.
“He’s doing it from a place of defense, of his own expediency and weakness,” said New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, a Republican who won New Hampshire by 16 points. So you’re announcing that you’re running for president. at the nadir of his political career. I don’t know how that’s going to work,” she added.
“This is basically the third consecutive election that Donald Trump it makes us lose the run, and it’s three hits and you’re out” (in baseball), said Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who also plays presidential.
In this vein, another former Republican candidate, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, said that Trump promised them they would get tired of winning. “Now we are tired of losing“, he indicated.
Meanwhile, Trump sees with anger and despair that conservative media such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post are turning their backs on him and embracing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who won a second term by more than 20 points and whom the New Yorker has defined as “a Trump with a brain”.
Biden-Trump, again?
Trump’s candidacy also increases the likelihood that President Biden will run for re-election, in what that would be a rematch of the 2020 campaign, according to the president’s advisers. Shortly after the Republican’s speech ended, in which he praised his government and lashed out at the current Democrat, Biden tweeted from his personal account: “Donald Trump has failed America”.
legal cases
There is also speculation that Trump launched his campaign so early seek timely protection against legal attacks who suffers from various cases.
The former president is the subject of several federal investigations: one on the attack on the Capitol from 6 January; another on his management of classified documents recovered at his home in Mar-a-Lago and a third your fledgling social media companyTruth Social, opened after being suspended by Twitter.
He also faces trial in New York for tax fraud and tax evasion of your real estate company.
However, many legal experts say a presidential race would not give rise to any special protection for the 76-year-old tycoon.
Although starting from a point of vulnerability, Trump enters the presidential race with some advantages on their potential rivals. He has amassed about $69 million. You can also benefit from the huge database of donors which it still has and, at least for now, remains the best fundraiser of party funds.
Trump is too the biggest attraction of the party for campaign events, filling events whenever you want with thousands of fanatical followersand their support proved decisive in many primaries, even though many of those candidates lost in November.
In AP VoteCast exit polls, 66% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents said they considered themselves supporters of the movement Make America great again (WIZARDED PROCEDURE).
Trump has already started attack your likely rivals Republicans, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Virginia Governor. Glen Youngkin.
Trump mostly sees DeSantis as a threat, according to his advisers, even before the governor’s landslide reelection on Tuesday bolstered his esteem with many of the party’s top donors and campaign professionals.
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