However, the unwavering support of the party’s most extremist rank and file makes the former president a favourite
“Florida Man Makes His Announcement”. This is how ‘The New York Post’ reacted yesterday in one line at the end of a bloody front page about war and crime to Donald Trump’s candidacy. He didn’t even mention her name. The 76-year-old magnate’s favorite tabloid has already decided that the former president is a thing of the past.
The ratings on the announcement he made Tuesday night—early yesterday morning in Spain—from his Mar-a-Lago residence to relaunch for the White House must have been good, but Trump can’t be happy with the results. Some channels, such as MNSBC, decided not to go live. Everyone hung up before the hour-long speech was over. Until the Fox chain, where his most loyal presenters, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, interrupted to make way for the commentators, who praised the much more subdued tone than they are used to.
“He didn’t become the center of attention, but the speech was about the American people and he even said that this is not his campaign, it’s everyone’s,” celebrated former Arkansas governor Mike Hucabee, who is one of his Trump loyalists . Like North Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who thought it was “a brilliant speech” that would make him “unbeatable.” Trump loyalists had no doubt, Florida Congresswoman who follows the QAnon ideology, Marjorie Taylor Greene, had already expressed her support before the announcement and publicly urged Ron DeSantis to stay on as Florida governor. But outside his circle there was a chill.
Most lawmakers rushed to Congress yesterday to avoid questions from journalists. They have learned not to criticize him in public. “We’re focused on the Georgia election,” Senator Todd Young apologized for not answering. The same phrase repeated by Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, a Trump ally. And some preferred to gently reject him, without noticing too much. “I want a reasonable person to join the party. That’s how you win elections,” South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds said.
The tycoon who won the presidency over Hillary Clinton without getting more votes than her, survived two impeachment processes and launched an uprising against the Capitol to try to reverse his rival’s victory has never recovered from the trauma of losing power. “Personally I don’t think it’s good for the party, we don’t need all the drama it brings,” said MP Mike Simpson. “I think we’d all be better off if he stepped aside,” acknowledged Senator Kevin Cramer.
Trump is toxic. Therefore, not even his children were present for the “great announcement” he had proclaimed with drums. Ivanka Trump announced in a statement that she “loves her father”, but this time she has chosen not to get involved in politics to devote herself to taking care of her family. donald trump jr. claimed to have missed a plane and his young daughter Tiffany, who did not participate in his previous presidency, is on her honeymoon. Only Eric, who is always portrayed as an idiot by comedians, sat in the front row with the loyal Melania and Barron, the magnate’s son, who is already over six feet tall at sixteen and stood out from the crowd.
More important was the rejection of the big Republican donors, whose pockets he will need to fund the campaign. Steve Schwarzman and Kenneth Griffin, his former allies, yesterday expressed the need to make way for “a new generation” of conservative leaders, said Blackstone’s chief executive. Both threw their hats in favor of Florida Governor Ron de Santis, who has not yet officially announced his candidacy and cannot do so until he is sworn in, which he just approved in the polls.
A study by the conservative “think tank” Club for Growth shows that the vote preference for DeSantis in the first states to hold the primaries is as high as 20 points. The problem is that this hypothesis is based on a duel between the two candidates, but the more that appear, the more the votes will be divided. With 35% staunch loyalists for Trump, it will be hard for him to lose, his former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, noted. Another thing is that he is later able to win the generals over the Democratic nominee, which portends a bloody campaign in which Trump has promised to “fight” with all his might.
It happened an hour before Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy for the 2024 election and it saved his night. There had been efforts in his close circle to convince him to postpone the announcement, given his party’s disappointing results in last Tuesday’s parliamentary elections. If he had waited for the upcoming Georgia seat to be contested, he might have boasted about getting that victory, but for the tycoon it would have been a sign of weakness.
He was lucky and could boast that he had helped the Republican Party to a majority in the House of Representatives. The result had been pending since last Tuesday, but after “ridiculously long and unnecessary waiting,” Trump protested, enough counties had finished counting for the Conservative Party to reach the 217 seats that make Conservative control of the county inevitable for the camera. “In any third-world country, this would have been counted in a short time,” lamented Trump, who has pledged to do away with early voting and mail-in voting if he wins the presidency to ensure results are known on election night. “It’s been a big win for the Trump-backed candidates,” he said, speaking of himself in the third person, “though frankly the Republican Party should have done better.” The Republican Party has already won eight seats from the Democratic Party and has nine more to win.
Source: La Verdad
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