In all probability, Donald Trump will announce his candidacy for the Republican primary for the 2024 US presidential election on Tuesday night. On November 7, while holding a meeting near Dayton, Ohio, as part of the partial examsIn fact, he invited his followers to listen to the “big announcement” that he would have to make to them on “Tuesday, November 15” at his Florida residence in Mar-a-Lago.
“Very big announcement” he revealed anyway in multiple statements, indicating in particular that he would “most likely” be a candidate during a public meeting in Ohio. However, the former president is not frankly expected to be the messiah in his own field.
unremarkable surveys, partial exams disappointing, the rise of his rival Ron DeSantis, the memory of the invasion of the Capitol by his supporters on January 6, 2021… The reasons for disappointment tend to accumulate. And conservatives are now wondering aloud if it would be better to turn the page on Donald Trump.
Grim poll after lousy poll
The opinion poll has caused a stir since its publication on Sunday. Relayed here by Axios, a YouGov poll, conducted in the aftermath of the midterm elections, showed that 23% of Americans saw the governor of Florida, brilliantly re-elected for a second term, more in the role of Republican candidate for the next presidency. choice. Donald Trump, appeared there behind his rival, with only 20% of the panel.
Worse, Republican supporters return a similar echo. In the same survey, 41% are thus to decide in favor of Ron DeSantis, against 39% in favor of the businessman.
This relative distance from his family was seen more specifically on the occasion of these same partial exams. Not only have the Republicans failed to turn the tide of the Democrats in the Senate, but they are still not entirely sure that they will dominate the next House of Representatives. Above all, the contenders most associated with the former president have been defeated in key battleground states, with the exception of future Senator JD Vance – a former critic of Donald Trump by the way – elected in Ohio.
Lake Kari is emblematic of this stampede. A longtime favorite in the Arizona gubernatorial race, he has failed in his business, US media reported Monday.
The uprising of the “reasonable” Republicans
Donald Trump claimed in vain – as he did on television on November 8 – that the credit for a possible Republican victory in the partial exams I would return to him, but not the opprobrium of defeat, the rebuff seems directed at him. In any case, this is the reading that many figures from his party have made of the electoral results.
“I think that the reasonable conservatives who have focused their agenda on people’s problems, like the economy, insecurity, education, have won well. While those who have tried to repeat the 2020 (presidential) elections, including Donald Trump and their supporters, question validity, editor’s note) and have propagated conspiracy theories…have been almost universally rejected,” was the statement dropped by Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, on the CNN set on Sunday.
And to continue: “It is simply the third election in a row that Donald Trump has made us lose, and in principle, three failures, you’re leaving.”
Larry Hogan has never hidden his dislike of Donald Trump, whose management of the Covid-19 crisis he criticized, among other things, but his case is far from isolated. Beginning Nov. 6, Chris Christie, a Republican executive and former governor of New Jersey, scorned the former president’s desire to return to the White House.
“He will be a candidate. Everyone always knew that he would be a candidate. He couldn’t be more hungry for attention than he is right now, and he’s going to be a candidate,” he told ABC News.
“We just have to wait and see what happens,” he added later, in an innuendo-laden sentence.
“Ineligible”
Precisely, for Paul Ryan, ex-speaker (the equivalent of the president) of the House of Representatives, does not make a fold. Quoted here by news site The hillestimated already in October:
“I think Trump’s ineligibility will be palpable.”
An “ineligibility” that goes back to his defeat in the 2020 presidential elections, or rather to his refusal to accept the omen and his guilty benevolence towards the invaders of the Capitol on January 6.
“We all know he’s going to lose. Or let me put it this way: We all know he’s more likely to lose the presidency than any other candidate on our part of the political spectrum. So why would we want to walk?” to Paul Ryan.
Why, in fact, especially since, as the polls show, his replacement seems to have been found in the person of Ron DeSantis, whose views on society, in terms of education, immigration in particular, are as conservative as those of the former? ? Head of State, but who does not share his excesses and is not weighed down by the embarrassing memory of the disorders that followed the last presidential elections.
The media leak
Ron DeSantis isn’t just a pollster fad. Much of the pro-Trump media is now backing him, stripping the billionaire of a crucial alliance when he came to power in 2016, and still very much alive in 2020. Right-wing tabloid, the New York Posthe even titled his Une DEFUTURE (in reference to Ron DeSantis) the day after the partial examsmocking Donald Trump in the following.
Parodying a famous children’s song in the Anglo-Saxon world, the newspaper sneered: “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) took a big fall: will the GOP men be able to pick up the pieces?”
The Fox News channel, for its part, has not broken so definitively with its former champion. But obviously she’s thinking about it. In addition to having also sung the praises of Ron DeSantis, and opening her trays wide to the most critical opinions towards Donald Trump, she published her forums on her website in the form of a declaration of war.
Liz Peek, one of his columnists, for example, wrote: “Trump may be ready to get his hands dirty to win the Republican nomination by 2024. Doing so will not only reinforce the disdain with which many in the Party view him today. , but will once again erode the chances of a Republican victory over the Democrats.”
The author even concluded with a rousing plea: “Let’s just hope that the millions of Americans who supported him in 2016 and again in 2020 begin to realize that he’s had his day. If they like his show, they’ve got to trust Ron DeSantis.” that he has never lost a single campaign, and that he has become the great winner of the partial exams“.
Rupert Murdoch’s kiss of death
This bombardment of the open presidential campaign is no accident. These two essential pieces of the media device, which until now have served as a springboard for Donald Trump in his escapades, both belong to the empire of Rupert Murdoch. However, the rag burns between the two men, according to the political journalist of the New York TimesMaggie Haberman, in a podcast:
“I think the defeat of Donald Trump on November 3, 2020 made Rupert Murdoch sick, and he said to someone close to him: ‘We should kick him out.’ (…) And so Fox is clearly attracted to DeSantis. We will see good examples in the case of a primary”.
There is definitely boxing promise above the Republican nomination.
Source: BFM TV
