Trump’s problems in the 2024 election
2022.11.16 01:58
Trump’s problems in the 2024 election
Budrigannews.com -Donald Trump, by all accounts, is still the same Donald Trump offensive, derogatory, tunnel, like – who is still focusing on his political status when he runs for president again. The electoral landscape around him has changed.
And after the stunning results of the Republican Party in the midterm elections of 2022, people in the party increasingly want to look back rather than look forward. Trump is no longer seeking the presidential nomination, which he could have become a year ago.
His potential rivals, in particular Florida Governor Ron Desantis, aroused the enthusiasm of Republican voters and, just as importantly, raised money from enthusiastic donors. Desantis defeated his Democratic opponent to win re-election last week, but many prominent Trump-backed candidates lost their race.
In an election day exit poll published by Edison Research, six out of 10 respondents said they had an unfavorable opinion of the former president.
Despite losing to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Trump is facing serious challenges on several fronts: the flood of damaging revelations during Congressional investigations of citizens and criminal investigations and his attempts to come to power.
On May 8, he became the subject of a federal criminal investigation in connection with a collection of top-secret documents that he kept at his home in Florida. Trump claims that the documents belonged to him legally.
He no longer had access to his main communications platform and weapon- his Twitter account – it was used to mobilize enthusiastic supporters and effectively attack perceived enemies. But Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, suggests that Trump’s account can be restored.
Trump has a strong advantage in the 2024 Republican primaries: he remains the most dominant force in the party, he has a legion of fans, and he has benefited from previous failures. As of last month, he also had a stock of about $77 million, but election rules will make it difficult for him to access it.
In the polarizing figure of 76, he is also a deeply polarizing figure who has tested the patience of many members of the American public. Seven years ago, when he put forward his successful candidacy for president, showman Trump and tycoon Trump were known to voters, but who he was as a politician remained an open question.
There is now little doubt that voters will punish his party as a result, which suggests that Trump’s appeal is limited.
In a series of Republican primaries this year, Trump played the role of a kingpin, largely succeeding in his efforts to promote like-minded candidates. But the general election was a kind of disaster for him, since the Senate candidate he supported in critical states was overthrown, and Republicans sacrificed control of the House of Representatives.
Maryland Republican Governor Larry Hogan told CNN on Sunday.
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Trump is also closely associated with the attack of his supporters on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, to try to prevent lawmakers from proving Biden’s victory. Trump continues to falsely claim that he lost in 2020 due to massive fraud.
Congressional hearings on the attack led to his unconstitutional quest to stay in power, jeopardizing the safety of his loyal Vice President Mike Pence, who was there that day.
Trump wants to run for the Republican nomination without opposition, but he wants as many candidates in the race as possible if his rivals decide to challenge him. In this fragmented field, a strong alternative candidate must appear so that he loses the nomination.
A 10-month Morning Consult/Politico poll showed that Trump won more than 50 percent of the Republican vote, while Desantis won about 21 percent. In a recent poll of Florida residents conducted by Victory Insights, Trump and Desantis scored 50% of the vote each.
As a sign that Trump sees Desantis as a threat, he recently came to brag at rallies that he defeated him in the Republican primary elections.
Trumpism without Trump?
There is also the question of whether Trump’s right wing, which has won many seats in the Republican Party, will make America great again by turning into a Trumpist movement without Trump and no longer needing him.
A new wave of candidates have echoed much of Trump’s rhetoric without worrying about his personal debt. At times they take an angry, more absolutist position than the former president.
As governor of Florida, Desantis fought abortion rights, social media companies, and teaching racial and gender issues in the classroom. He supports new voting restrictions.
For some Republicans, Desantis, 44, looks more like the future of the party than Trump. Where Desantis has pushed himself to the forefront of Republican politics, Trump, on the contrary, may seem like a rock band that has survived its heyday, content to perform its most popular hits over and over again.
Other candidates include two rising stars: former South Carolina Governor and former U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley and South Dakota Governor Christie Nome. Pence and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo may appeal more to establishment-minded Republicans than to Trump.
Trump’s early statement can be seen as an attempt to keep these potential rivals away from the electoral battlefield, but he was in a position of relative strength that allowed him to succeed in attracting Republicans to his 3rd presidential candidacy.
But these rivals can see a flawed candidate and smell blood in the water, leaving Trump to decide for himself how much he wants to fight for the party he once unquestionably commanded.
