After more than a year’s worth of early moves in 2024’s presidential election cycle, the start gun for the next White House race is lit immediately after. Tuesday’s midterm elections.
“There have been several a A half-dozen or more Republicans who have been circling around the midterms as a pretense for running for president – road testing some messaging,” longtime GOP consultant David Kochel, a veteran of dozens of Iowa political campaigns, told Fox News.
And former New Hampshire attorney general and longtime GOP consultant Tom Rath noted that “we’re already a quarter of the way around the [2024] track.”
It is possible that one of the most important and anticipated moves in the next White House race could occur almost immediately.
COULD TRUMP ANNOUNCE a 2024 BID A WEEK FOLLOWING THE MIDTERMS?
Donald Trump greets his supporters after he speaks at a rally on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022 in Sioux City. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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Sources former President Donald Trump’s political orbit tell Fox News that a potential 2024 announcement could possibly occur during the week starting on Monday, Nov. 14 — just a week after the midterms. However, sources warn that things can change quickly.
Axios reports that Trump and his political party are looking at Nov. 14 to launch a potential presidential campaign. 2024 presidential campaignThe event would be followed up by a string political events. A source in Trump’s political orbit waved Fox News off the actual date of Nov. 14 but added “that week is being looked at, but it’s all fluid.”
Kochel, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns, said that if the latest reporting on the former president comes to fruition, “Trump is going to push his chips on the table within a week or two after the midterms and then we’re off to the races.”
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Since leaving the White House in January 2021, Trump has been flirting with a second presidential run. Trump discussed the possibility of a run in 2024 at rallies held across the country in support his endorsed GOP candidates. He has repeatedly stated, “I may need to do it again.”The former president also claimed repeatedly that his 2020 election loss was due to “now-.”President Biden“Massive voter corruption” caused the increase.
Donald Trump reacts with a supporter at a rally on Thursday, November 3, 2022 in Sioux City.Â
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The ex-president pumped up his 2024 language at a rally held in Iowa on Thursday. Iowa has been the state where the presidential nominating process began for over a century. “I will very, very strongly, very likely do that again, OK? Trump spoke at Sioux City rally. The city is located in the deep red. Iowa’s northwestern corner. “Get ready. That’s all I’m telling you. It will be soon. Get ready. Get ready.
Nearly two decades after his defeat in re-election, Trump is still the most influential and popular politician in the Republican Party and the largest fundraiser. According to poll after poll, Trump will be the overwhelming front-runner for nomination.
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Trump’s status in the GOP, and his repeated 2024 teasing haven’t stopped other potential Republican White House hopefuls making moves towards launching presidential campaigns.
Former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former South Carolina governor; former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas, Tom Cotton from Arkansas and Ted Cruz in Maryland. Larry Hogan and Tom Cotton of Arkansas are two possible White House hopefuls that have been to Iowa and other early-voting states during the past year and half.Â
Mike Pence, former Vice President, is the headliner at the Kaufmann Family Harvest Dinner on September 29, 2022 in Wilton.
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A potential Trump announcement will be made, but the first Republican 2024 cattle calls will take place in the week following the midterms.
Up first is the Republican Governors Association’s annual winter meeting, which is being held this year near Orlando, Florida. Among those attending who have said they’re mulling a White House bid or who are viewed by political prognosticators as potential contenders are Govs. Ron DeSantis from Florida, Glenn Youngkin in Virginia, Larry Hogan in Maryland, Kristi Noem from South Dakota, and Gov. Chris Sununu from New Hampshire, Asa Houtchinson of Arkansas and Pete Ricketts in Nebraska.
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At the end of the week, as first reported by Fox News late last month, a dozen GOP politicians whom pundits view as potential or likely contenders for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, will attend the Republican Jewish Coalition’s (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas.
The twelve are Pence, Pompeo, Haley, Cotton, Cruz, Â Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina are the other two. Bill Hagerty, of Tennessee, is DeSantis’, Hogan’s, Sununu’s former governor. Chris Christie of New Jersey.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis
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Pointing to Trump, Kochel noted that “he’s clearly the heavyweight. He’s the big foot in the field.”
However, he said that the former President “isn’t going to clear the fields.” He’s going to accelerate people’s timelines for deciding whether they go or not go. I think you’ll have some people who say they won’t run because Trump’s in. He’s going to have one or more serious challengers who are going to make a run at him.”
And Kochel said “I would imagine by the end of the first quarter of 2023 we’ll probably know who’s really going to get in.”
Rath, also a veteran of numerous Republican presidential campaigns, predicted that “I think there’s going to be somebody who we’re not looking at now who emerges because there’s an opportunity. They have three to six months to make that choice.
2022 and 2024 collide in NH
New HampshireThis is a crucial battleground state in general elections with a critical Senate race between former governors and first-term Dems. Sen. Maggie Hassan and GOP nominee and former general Don Bolduc that’s one of a handful across the country that will likely determine if the Republicans win back the chamber’s majority. And the state’s two congressional districts are considered competitive — especially the very swingy First District — and the winners in both those races will impact whether the Democrats are able to hold onto their razor-thin majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.
But New Hampshire is also the state that for a century’s held the first presidential primary in the White House race, and the Granite State’s seen plenty of traffic this cycle by out-of-state politicians who may harbor national ambitions in the 2024 election cycle. This has been intensified in recent weeks.
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley
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On Sunday, Haley will return to New Hampshire to campaign for Bolduc. It’s Haley’s third trip to the Granite State in the past six weeks to team up with her party’s U.S. Senate nominee in New Hampshire.Â
On Wednesday, conservative talk radio host Larry Elder trekked to New Hampshire to team up on the campaign trail with GOP congressional nominee Karoline Leavitt, who’s challenging Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas in the First District. Elder, who was the top GOP vote getter in last year’s unsuccessful gubernatorial recall election in California, says he’s mulling a run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and promised plenty of return trips to New Hampshire and Iowa, where he also recently stopped.
While he wasn’t in New Hampshire in person, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (who pundits consider a potential Republican presidential candidate) endorsed Bolduc and signed a fundraising email to support the Senate nominee. It’s the same for Sen. Tim Scott. Scott endorsed Bolduc. His aligned PAC spent six-figures in order to boost the GOP Senate nomination. Bolduc was also visited by Sen Rick Scott (chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee).
As for the Democrats, Hassan is getting some high profile help this weekend from three Democrats who ran for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination and may possibly run again in 2024 if President Biden decides against seeking a second term.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, the progressive champion made the short journey from Massachusetts to New Hampshire on Friday to campaign alongside Hassan at Durham University of New Hampshire. And U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota — who came in second and third in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire — join Hassan on the Granite State campaign trail on Sunday.
Hogan trolling Biden
The day before the election, President Biden will be visiting Maryland to headline a rally of the Democratic National Committee in Columbia.
Larry Hogan, the term-limited Republican governor of the heavily blue state, plans to bracket Biden’s visit with a video spotlighting the governor’s achievements and criticizing Biden’s presidency. Hogan political advisers say they plan to showcase the video as they geofence the DNC’s rally headlined by Biden.
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“After two years of failed policies, the exhausted majority of Americans aren’t buying Joe Biden’s campaign rhetoric and are demanding change,”  said David Weinman, executive director of the Hogan aligned public advocacy group An America United.Â
“While President Obama is visiting our state, we hope that he has the chance to hear from Marylanders how Governor Hogan has already shown a better way forward by turning around the economy, bringing people closer, and leading with commonsense.”
