Even if his influence on the Republican Party remains undeniable, he nevertheless emerged weakened from the mid-term elections, during which many of his lieutenants disappointed.
Former US President Donald Trump, who was rumored to be ready to run for the White House again, will declare on Tuesday that he is “candidate for electionof 2024, one of his close advisers confirmed on Friday. The real estate mogul had previously hinted that he might run, promising that he would do a “big announcement– the content of which no longer really aroused suspense in recent days.
“President Trump will announce on Tuesday that he is running for president. And it will be a very professional, very neat ad“said his adviser Jason Miller on”War Room“, the podcast of Steve Bannon, another close friend of Donald Trump. The 76-year-old Republican believes that the question of his candidacy “don’t even askMr. Miller explained, saying he spoke to her earlier in the day.
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“Of course I introduce myself. I’m going to do this, and I want to make sure people know that I’m fired up and we need to get the country back on track“, would have assured him Donald Trump. “Everybody knows I’m gonna show up, so let’s go“, he would have added. Donald Trump’s candidacy will be his third in the White House. But even if his influence on the Republican Party remains undeniable, he emerged weakened from the midterm elections last Tuesday, during which many of his lieutenants disappointed.
No conservative wave
There “vagueThe conservative campaign so hoped for by its supporters has not surged and, even if the final results are not yet known, the Democrats seem to have succeeded in limiting the damage. Several days after the ballot, a suspenseful vote count continued on Friday, with control of Congress remaining uncertain. The Republicans seemed well on their way to winning a majority in the House of Representatives, but they were still seven seats short.
Regarding the Senate, a ballot in Nevada and another in Arizona could be decisive. If a party wins these two seats, it wins the upper house. But if one goes to the Republicans and the other to the Democrats, Americans will have to be patient. Everything will then be played out in Georgia where, none of the candidates having collected the 50% of the votes necessary to win the senator’s seat at stake on Tuesday, a second round will be organized… on December 6.
Unlike Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, triumphantly re-elected, is crowned with the image of the big winner of this election season. The victory of this new star of the hard right has consolidated his place as a potential rival of the ex-president for the Republican nomination. This did not escape the billionaire, who chained this week spades and mockery against the one he nicknamed “Ron-the-Moral“. And, coincidence of the calendar or not, Tuesday will also be the day of the release of the memoirs of another possible competitor of Donald Trump, his former vice-president Mike Pence.
The 2024 election could be a remake of the 2020 election: his then opponent, current Democratic President Joe Biden, reaffirmed this week his “intentionto run for a second term. But he took care to postpone any final decision until next year.