A close aide of Donald Trump said he would make a “very big announcement” on Tuesday.
Washington:
Donald Trump will announce next week that he is taking another shot at the presidency with a White House run in 2024, his longtime adviser Jason Miller said Friday.
The divisive former president, who will be 78 when the next election takes place, is hinting at another presidential run while campaigning for Republican candidates ahead of this week’s midterm election, and has said he will be looking for a “very good” run on Tuesday. Big announcement”.
“President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he is running for president,” Miller told Steve Bannon, a former Trump aide, on his popular “War Room” podcast.
“It will be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement,” he said.
Miller said Trump told him, “No question, of course I’m running.”
Trump’s big announcement in Florida comes after a disappointing run for many of the candidates he supports in the midterm.
The expected Republican “red wave” failed to materialize, and the party won a much smaller victory than predicted.
With 211 seats so far, Republicans are set to secure a slim majority in the 435-member House of Representatives. However, control of the Senate in the southern state of Georgia could be reduced by early December.
The former president’s key media ally – the powerful media empire of conservative billionaire Rupert Murdoch – turned him on in the wake of the elections.
Pointing to the party’s dismal mid-term performance, Murdoch’s head of News Corp., The Wall Street Journal, declared in an editorial Thursday that “Trump is the Republican Party’s biggest loser.”
The cover of the tabloid New York Post featured Trump as “Trumpty Dumpty” on a precarious wall, which was “a great fall.”
Trump’s early entry into the race was designed to fend off possible criminal charges for taking top secret documents from the White House, his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the attack on the US Capitol by his supporters on January 6 last year.
It may also aim to undermine his main potential rival for the Republican presidential nomination, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who emerged as one of the biggest winners from Tuesday’s midterm.
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