Trump: The Big Loser? Hot Mic with Nidhi Razdan

Hi, this is Hot Mike and I’m Nidhi Razdan.

Donald Trump has just announced that he will seek another shot at the US presidency in the next election in 2024. But will he be the candidate of the Republican Party this time? For a number of reasons, it may not turn out the way Trump had hoped. The Republican Party seems to be suffering from Trump fatigue. The party performed heavily in the recent US midterm elections, losing to the Democrats in the Senate. And they seem to be getting a slight majority in the House of Representatives. It’s a far cry from the red wave that Republicans had previously predicted and has actually turned out to be the best showing for the president’s party in decades. The biggest loser was Donald Trump. Most of the candidates he supported lost the elections. Many of these were conspiracy theorists or election deniers. Those who said that Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 was a fraud, a claim that Trump has tried to emphasize ever since he lost to Biden.

So, for example, in Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman overturned the Senate seat by defeating Republican Mehmet Oz, while Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, won the governor’s race against the Republican candidate. In Arizona, Kari Lake and Blake Masters – both of whom followed Trump’s playbook – both lost to their Democratic counterparts for governor and Senate, respectively. Even where the Trump-endorsed candidate won, it was by a narrow margin. As in Ohio, Republican JD Vance won the Senate, but took 53% of the vote for the Grand Old Party to hold that state’s Senate seat. However, other Republican candidates for statewide offices won nearly 60% of the vote. So much Now it has left many in the Republican Party to ask whether wild conspiracy theories and extreme positions have cost him the midterms, and therefore whether Trump is still the man to vie for the top job. And another factor in the Republican Party is a new face seen as the less right-wing Ron DeSantis, who recently won a landslide victory as governor of Florida and is now the new rising star of the Republican Party. .

It seems that even the right-wing media has deserted Trump. The New York Post, which has been one of his biggest supporters in the past, declared the Florida governor DeFUTURE on its front page. Then there was a Fox News article reporting that Trump, as he put it, exploded across the media spectrum, calling the former president tonight’s Biggest Loser. Now, Trump knows DeSantis is the biggest threat he faces on his road to the White House today, which is why he jokingly called him “Ron DeSanctimonious” and also added, “I think if he If he runs, he can hurt himself a lot.” badly. I think Aadhaar will not like it. It will not be good for the party.” And then he threatened to reveal “things” about DeSantis. “It wouldn’t be very flattering,” as he put it.

Now, just before Trump’s presidential announcement, there was also a series of polls conducted by a conservative group that showed that in a one-on-one contest with Ron DeSantis, Trump trailed by a wide margin among Republican voters. were running in key states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. These are the two states that actually vote early in the Republican nominating process. DeSantis is also leading by 26 points against Trump in Florida and 20 points in the state of Georgia. Now, all of this clearly shows that Trump is not very popular among Republican voters at the moment. And that DeSantis is ahead in any one-on-one contest.

This time Trump will also not participate in the race on a blank slate. Already being a one-term president, he will be judged on the basis of his past record and his role in the January 6 Capitol Hill riots. He’s also facing some very serious legal problems, including a criminal election tampering investigation in the state of Georgia, a civil fraud case in New York targeting his business empire, and a defamation lawsuit involving sexual assault allegations. And also includes the investigation of his role in the election. Capitol Hill Attack. In addition, the management of his classified material post-presidency. However, not all of the Republican Party’s midterm losses are Trump’s fault. According to surveys, the Supreme Court’s decision on abortion also played a big role. But it is also clear that Trump’s path to the White House has become very difficult this time.