This Tuesday, November 15, donald trumpformer president of the United States, fulfilled his threats and resubmitted his candidacy to lead the Republican Party (GOP) in the 2024 presidential election.
“I’m announcing tonight my candidacy for President of the United States,” Trump said during an event at his property in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
This announcement comes just a week after the opposition party suffered an upset defeat in the midterm elections in an electoral contest that was expected to be a “red tide” in favor of the Republicans.
The massive Republican vote never materialized despite the economic situation and the relative low popularity of the current President Joe Biden. Analysts suggest that issues such as reproductive rights, climate protection and the defense of democracy provoked an unprecedented mobilization of millennial and Generation Z voters who supported the Democrats by more than 60 percent.
The dismal results of the Republicans in the midterm elections have led several party leaders to ask that the bloc distance itself from Donald Trump and have even blamed him directly for the poor results.
Why many Republicans don’t like Donald Trump
The analysis of the midterm elections in the United States seems to show that the more traditional Republican candidates and with more concise proposals achieved more concrete victories. On the other hand, the candidates supported by Trump and who repeat his conspiratorial and more radical rhetoric lost elections that should have been sung Republican victories.
The former president is facing growing voices against him and the strong popularity that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a more traditional Republican figure, has garnered after defeating his rival by more than 20 percentage points.
At the moment it is not clear if DeSantis would also run as a candidate, but Trump already sees him as a rival and has given him nicknames to make fun of him.
If both were to run, they would face, along with every other candidate, the GOP primary elections to choose a champion for the 2024 elections and remove the Democrats from the White House.
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