After the disappointing results for the Republican Party in the US mid-term elections, a number of Republican politicians attacked the former president, Donald Trump, and expressed concern about his candidacy to run again for the presidency on behalf of the party in 2024. According to them, “he will lead to defeat, the White House will remain in the hands of the Democrats.” This, after declaring that he intends to run again in the upcoming presidential elections.
The same members of the Republican Party also claimed that most of the candidates who benefited from Trump’s support lost in the mid-term elections, reflecting the “decline” in the popularity of the former president, and in his power to recruit new voters. former governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, said that “the Republican Party loses time and time again in the elections, Trump puts himself before the party.” At the same time, the former chairman of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryansaid that “I think we now clearly know that we will lose if Trump is the Republican candidate.”
Remember, after a long period of insinuations and rumors, Trump officially announced last week that he intends to run for president in the upcoming elections, in 2024. Since Trump has only served one term as president, there is no bar for him to run again. Trump spoke and repeated the slogans that brought him victory in 2016: “To make America great again, I am announcing my candidacy tonight. Until two years ago we were a great nation and we will be a great nation again. America’s comeback begins now. Under our leadership we were a magnificent nation, We were strong and free. We are now in retreat and failing,” Trump added in his statement.
After the midterm elections, it was reported that the former president blamed the loss on the inner circle close to him, and even on his wife, Melania Trump. Trump claimed that they were the ones who urged him to support the candidate who lost. Maggie Haberman, a reporter for “The New York Times” tweeted on her Twitter account and claimed that “the president told Melania that her decision to support Oz was not one of the best decisions she made.”