WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will run for president in 2024, even as a growing number of Republicans urge the party to look back on its 2022 midterm debacle.
“I am delivering my candidacy for president of the United States tonight,” Trump said in a keynote address at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Minutes before nine o’clock on the Mar-a-Lago calendar, Trump filed a document with the Federal Election Commission stating he will run for president in 2024 and creating a fundraising account.
“The return of America begins now,” Trump said in his speech at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Trump hoped to use a rite at his Mar-a-Lago home to credit himself for Republican election victories; however, the GOP’s failure to take over the Senate and struggles in House races stalled that plan and forced Trump to adopt a defensive policy.
Many Republicans blamed Trump and Trump candidates for the GOP’s poor functionality in the 2022 midterm elections, noting that the businessman-led party also performed poorly in the 2018 and 2020 elections.
“Trump accuses us of the last 3 elections, and I don’t need it to be held a fourth time,” Maryland’s Republican governor Larry Hogan told CNN, an example of some of the most acute complaints from Republicans since Trump’s first bid for president in 2015. -sixteen.
Many Republicans for a new leader are turning to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla. , who challenged anti-Republican trends by winning re-election with more than 59 percent of the vote. DeSantis is so popular that Trump has already started attacking him.
In last week’s midterm elections, Republicans failed to take the Senate, even though they only needed a net gain of one seat, and fought in several races for the U. S. House of Representatives. U. S. and state offices. The GOP is still on track to take over the House, but most likely by less than half a dozen seats, a crushing sadness for party leaders who had imagined a “red wave” and blamed Trump for a small trickle.
“Trump is the Republican Party’s biggest loser,” read a headline on the Wall Street Journal’s favorable editorial page.
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At the G-20 summit of world leaders in Indonesia, a reporter asked President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron if they had any reaction to Trump’s presidential election in 2024.
According to a White House group report, the president “doesn’t really. “
Macron, is the pool report, remained silent and reacted.
–Luciana Lopez
One notable absence from Trump’s nascent 2024 campaign: Ivanka Trump.
The former firstborn issued a saying “I love my father very much” and added: “This time I decide to prioritize my young people and the privacy we create as a family. I’m not going to worry about politics. “
Ivanka Trump said, “I will love and help my father,” but “in the future, I will do it outside the political arena. “
“I am grateful to have had the honor of serving other Americans and will be proud of the many accomplishments of our administration,” she said.
–David Jackson
Whether Donald Trump’s return to the White House is successful, adding the Republican nomination, depends on voters.
The only thing that is certain is that at one point Trump’s presidency would be limited to one term. This has already gone through the Constitution of the United States.
Amendment 22 clearly states: “No user shall be elected to the office of president more than twice, and no user who has held the office of president or has acted as president for more than two years of a term in which another user has been elected president shall be elected president more than once. “
–Antonio Fins, Palm Beach Post
Read the full story here: A time when Trump’s administration would be for one term, according to the U. S. ConstitutionU. S.
The new 2024 candidate peppered his speech with some policy proposals, most of them long-term aimed at what the former president and now three-time presidential candidate calls “the Washington establishment. “
Trump has called for a constitutional one to impose term limits on members of Congress, a “permanent ban” on taxpayer crusade funding and a ban on lobbying through former lawmakers.
Members of either party are likely to resist such plans; term limits have been an obstacle in Congress for decades.
Trump also reiterated his call to replace the election to attack early voting and mail-in voting, which clashed with him in the election. He called for a one-day vote with paper ballots.
State elections.
–David Jackson
Trump has announced that he would like to make adjustments to the conduct of the election, such as requiring that all votes be cast on paper ballots and that all votes be counted on election night.
Presidential elections are lately decentralized and administered at the state level.
–Erin Mansfield
Politicians affiliated with the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus and their crossed arm have begun speaking out for another four years for President Donald Trump.
“THIS IS HISTORIC,” the representative tweeted. Ronny Jackson, R-Texas, a former Trump White House physician who applied to head the Department of Veterans Affairs but later retired.
“We will make America even greater!”Tweeted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.
“I will do what I can to deliver Ohio back to President Trump,” tweeted Max Miller, a Republican congressman from Ohio.
–Erin Mansfield
President Joe Biden and Democrats were quick to raise money through Trump’s announcement: They sent emails to potential donors while the former president was still speaking.
“It will fail,” read the petition signed through Biden, and “the intervention of people like you will be a big part of how it will happen. “
Biden went on to tout Democratic victories in the midterm elections.
“And if it interferes now,” the email said, “our will defeat MAGA Republicans in 2024. “
–David Jackson
Donald Trump’s resolve to run for president in 2024 has brought back to the forefront basic questions about how prosecutors would handle the panoply of investigations still ongoing since his last term in the White House.
Would President Joe Biden’s management take the historic resolve to prosecute a political rival?How could a high-profile thief or civil case opposed to Trump be perceived by voters as a presidential crusade?What are the implications for the Justice Department if prosecutors indict Trump but fail?get a conviction?
What is clear: In the eyes of the law, Trump will remain a personal citizen in his crusade, unable to rely on the anti-prosecution protections he enjoyed as president.
— John Fritze and Kevin Johnson
Read the Full Story: ‘Not Above the Law’: Why Trump’s Resolution to Run for President May Not Replace His Legal Troubles
As the former president spoke about his administration’s accomplishments, President Joe Biden’s account wrote, “Donald Trump has failed America. “
The message included a video with Trump that read, “No one has done what they have done in the last 4 years. “
–Erin Mansfield
The former president’s speech sounded a lot like his statements at political rallies in the 2022 midterm elections, with the notable exception that he finally said categorically that he was “announcing my candidacy for the presidency of the United States. “
For the rest, Trump has talked — and exaggerated — his current record on issues like COVID, trade, energy, crime and immigration, as well as China, Russia, Iran, while attacking those gains under Joe Biden’s administration.
Trump also distorted the effects of the 2022 election. He said Republicans would likely take over the U. S. House of Representatives. But he did not mention that his margin could be less than a dozen seats, much smaller than Trump and the Republican expected.
He claimed that the GOP had lost ground in the Senate, but added that “we lose hope. “
What Trump didn’t mention: A growing number of party members blamed him for the losses and advised him to step aside by 2024.
Trump that advice.
“We will stop,” he said.
–David Jackson
Political parties nominate the sitting president for re-election if the leader is a member of their party. For example, after Trump won the 2016 presidential election, he was nominated smoothly through the Republican Party in 2020. And after former President Barack Obama won the White House race in 2008, he was nominated through the Democratic Party in the 2012 presidential election.
But does a political party appoint a user because he is president lately or because he was already president?Here’s what you want to know.
— Marina Pitofski
Read the full story here: Should Republicans nominate Trump in 2024?Should Biden be elected? What you want to know
Former President Donald Trump filed an official with the Federal Election Commission indicating himself as a presidential candidate in 2024.
Additional documents filed with the FEC created an account for the crusade’s fundraiser. She will be linked to Save America’s joint fundraising committee, which for months has donated to Trump’s leadership PAC, Save America.
–Erin Mansfield, David Jackson
DeSantis declined to comment on Trump’s expected announcement on Tuesday, but said the new complaint from the former president and his allies doesn’t make sense as “noise. “
“At the end of the day, I was just telling other people to check last Tuesday night’s dashboard,” DeSantis told reporters.
–David Jackson
Trump vs. DeSantis: Trump is under midpoint fire. DeSantis is going up. And a 2024 rivalry is just beginning.
Trump’s speech sets up an unprecedented campaign: a candidate seeking the first former president to regain the White House since Grover Cleveland in 1892, while facing a multi-front criminal investigation and, in all likelihood, impeachment.
Republican officials reacted tepidly to the announcement.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, told reporters that “anyone can run” and that “global has been drastically replaced” in recent weeks. Cornyn said he doesn’t think Trump is “the only candidate for president in 2024 and I will be the Republican nominee. But I don’t know if it will be him. “
Several Republicans, as well as longtime allies such as former spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, had suggested Trump delay his announcement, at least until the Dec. 6 Senate runoff in Georgia. Trump refused.
–David Jackson
Trump speech: Do Republicans think Donald Trump will pass easily?AH! Good with that.
The genuine word slipped into Trump’s announcement: Minutes before speaking at Mar-a-Lago, President Joe Biden spoke in Bali about the missile strike reported today in Poland.
Speaking from the site of a G-20 economic conference, Biden said the United States would investigate Poland over the missile strike and suspicions of Russian involvement.
–David Jackson
An unprecedented race through nature is unpredictable, but one thing is pretty certain: DeSantis will play a role, one way or another.
Several Republicans are pushing DeSantis to stand up to Trump, citing his successful re-election last week rather than Trump’s failures.
The conservative Club For Growth, an anti-tax organization, released polls that appeared DeSantis won individual contests opposed to Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states to hold Republican delegate contests in the race for the 2024 nomination. Club-sponsored polls also showed DeSantis ahead of Trump in Florida and Georgia.
David McIntosh, president of the political arm of the Club For Growth, said the ballot shows that “the number one Republican electorate recognizes that Trump’s insults to Republicans are hollow and counterproductive, and that weighs heavily on their support. “
McIntosh and Trump clashed over strategy and candidates on certain issues of the 2022 midterm campaign.
–David Jackson
Despite recent negativity, some Republicans have signaled that Trump remains in position for 2024; He still has a significant conservative base and would be hard to beat in a Republican primary.
Trump has already been depressed, especially after the Jan. 6, 2021, uprising, and has bounced back with Republican cronies.
Brendan Buck, a former spokesman for 2012 Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, said he would like to see a “fresh face” for the party, but is “skeptical” that a Trump challenger can win.
Even if DeSantis or someone else could oust Trump, the new Republican leader would still have to face a vengeful former president more than willing to demolish the party, or even run as an independent, Buck said.
“What, then, are the chances that Trump won’t completely sabotage this user in the general election?” said Buck.
–David Jackson
DeSantis Trump’s only potential challenger, and an entire organization, will be on display this weekend in Las Vegas.
Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence, is also taking the plunge. Pence is on a reading tour lately.
Pence, DeSantis and other potential Republican hopefuls are scheduled to face the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual caucus of leaders this weekend, the first presidential “cattle call” of the 2024 presidential cycle.
Other convention hopefuls include former South Carolina governor and U. N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and senses Rick Scott of Florida, Ted Cruz of Texas and Tim Scott of South Carolina.
–David Jackson
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Hovering over Trump and the Republican camp, as is: Investigations.
Prosecutors are investigating the former president for the removal of classified documents from the White House, to oppose his 2020 election defeat by President Joe Biden, and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurgency and attack on the U. S. Capitol. U. S.
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The U. S. Department of Justice U. S. prosecutors in Atlanta are examining Trump’s role in attempts to oppose his 2020 election defeat and the insurgency that followed on Jan. 6, 2021.
A grand jury is also investigating whether Trump improperly disposed of classified White House documents when he left in early 2021. That investigation included a search of his Mar-a-Lago, the site of Tuesday’s announcement.
Trump has denied wrongdoing and the investigations are politically motivated.
Since 2021, Trump has come under legal scrutiny in at least six independent federal and state civil and casualty investigations. At least two polls involve the 2020 election.
A special House committee has investigated Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which is also an investigation through the U. S. Department of Justice. U. S.
The New York attorney general sued the Trump organization over its practices and made references to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
–David Jackson
A nonpartisan watchdog organization alleged in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that former President Donald Trump and his affiliated fundraising teams violated crusader funding laws.
Monday’s complaint from the Campaign Legal Center is about $20 million transferred from Save America to a super PAC called MAGA Inc. before the mid-term of 2022 and alleges that MAGA Inc. “He intends to spend millions to influence federal elections,” Trump said. Campaign.
The factor considers federal restrictions on how applicants and non-applicants can spend cash and a requirement through the Federal Election Commission that applicants must complete an express form once they have collected or spent more than $5,000. The Campaign Law Center alleges that Trump’s investment far exceeds this threshold.
“He never stopped running in one direction because he never stopped fundraising,” Saurav Ghosh, director of the Campaign Legal Center for Federal Reform, told USA TODAY. Start smart in 2024. Unfortunately, the law does not allow it. “
Ghosh said the FEC, a committee of three Republicans and three Democrats mired in contentious issues, is unlikely to punish Trump.
–Erin Mansfield
Asked about former President Donald Trump’s planned announcement Tuesday night, Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said he supports the former president and dined with him last week where the two discussed the most productive time to launch a presidential campaign.
“I’ve given him my opinion and feedback on when to go, when not (to run), but he’ll do what he thinks is right for his campaign,” Tuberville said.
Tuberville said the former president had “negatives” to overcome, but said he had the idea they would do it themselves when Trump campaigned and started talking about the issues.
Tuberville, who said Trump helped him get elected, called him “the heir presumptive heir” when asked who he thought the current GOP leader was, but added that the GOP was looking for one.
-Raquel Looker
9:00 p. m. from former President Donald Trump. The announcement Y of his Mar-a-Lago hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, will air on various websites.
–Erin Mansfield
Organization Enjoys Republican Spectacle: Democrats
Some are already stirring the pot in opposition to a split through Trump.
Florida Democrat Nikki Fried, the state’s agriculture commissioner, recently tweeted against DeSantis: “You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. Don’t be fooled by @RonDeSantisFL, it’s more extreme, radical and harmful. “than the other Florida resident. “
Fried also had a message for Trump, whom Governor Ron DeSanctimonious: “Oh
Biden told reporters he was looking for a showdown between Trump and DeSantis: “It would be fun to watch them play each other,” and has long said he wouldn’t think about another game with Trump.
Back in March, Biden said, “I would be very fortunate if the same guy came forward against me. “
–David Jackson