He’s back! After dropping bread crumbs along the campaign trail for months, Donald Trump has confirmed that he filed the requisite documentation to begin a 2024 presidential campaign in earnest. The filing will be the first step in what many hope is an eventual announcement of officially running.
🚨BREAKING 🚨Donald Trump officially files FEC paperwork to run for President of the United States in 2024 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ZnMX2DvsJI
— OutKick (@Outkick) November 16, 2022
Writing locally from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, The Palm Beach Post reported that the filing occurred just shortly before his much-anticipated and scheduled speaking event this evening.
Minutes before his scheduled 9 p.m. announcement from Mar-a-Lago,Trump filed a paperwork with the Federal Election Commission saying he was running for president in 2024, and setting up a fundraising account.
Trump had hoped to use a ceremony at his Mar-a-Lago home to seize credit for Republican election victories; but the GOP’s failure to take the Senate and struggles in House races scotched that plan and forced Trump onto the political defensive.
The huge announcement comes in the wake of what many conservatives feel was an underwhelming midterm election cycle. Despite polls – and a gut feel across the nation – suggesting Joe Biden’s radical leftist agenda would be rebuked by significant Republican turnout, Democrats nonetheless maintained their Senate majority (even flipping a Pennsylvania seat).
The Republicans just barely eked out a House majority, at least theoretically blunting the continued damage Joe Biden can wreak upon the rest of the nation.
As the Palm Beach Post continued, it noted that many pundits tried pinning the fallout from the midterm elections on Trump. It wrote:
In last week’s midterm elections, Republicans failed to win control of the Senate – even though they only needed a net gain of one seat – and struggled in a number of U.S. House and state office races. The GOP is still on track to win control of the House, but probably by less than a half-dozen seats – a crushing disappointment for party leaders who had envisioned a “red wave” and blamed Trump for a bare trickle.
With Republicans losing across the nation and Trump’s in-state rival, Florida governor Ron DeSantis, winning in a landslide re-election bid, the narrative quickly shifted to seeing Trump as the outsider in his own effort to reclaim the White House.
Still, the corporate media simply ignores the draw and appeal Donald Trump uniquely has. He was the only candidate who could take down Hillary Clinton in 2016 through his messaging of draining the swamp and not being a career establishment hack. After years of abuse at the hands of the media and establishment politicians on both sides of the political aisle, his persona has only been further cemented as an outsider. In today’s climate, anything other than representing the D.C. uniparty is a major strength.
In the coming weeks and months, the most interesting thing to watch will be how Florida’s newly-reelected governor decides to act. If DeSantis sits out 2024, it clearly seems Trump would gain the nomination. However, if DeSantis enters the contest, then Trump has already signaled he is willing to go after anyone standing in his way. Trump released a blistering statement against the Florida governor in the midterm’s aftermath, suggesting to voters he alone was responsible for DeSantis’s rise. He also intimated he had a lot more dirt to hurl in his direction.
DeSantis, for his part, responded by pointing to the proverbial scoreboard and letting the votes speak for themselves.
Either way, this is huge news from Trump that has long been anticipated and is the first step in undoing the disastrous Biden administration. The only thing left to do is Make America Great Again!
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