Trump’s former president appears to be moving at full speed ahead as he looks towards a likely victory. 2024 presidential campaignAnnouncement at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida on Tuesday evening
Many Trump supporters have urged Trump to postpone his announcement until after Dec. 6, despite a chorus of private and public calls. Georgia Senate runoff election — which could potentially determine the Senate majority — Trump appears to be moving forward with what he touts as his “special announcement.”
A source close to the former president tells Fox News that Trump is “going to announce on Tuesday” regardless of advice from some people in the former president’s orbit. “I am very certain that is what he’s going to do.”
Jason Miller, a top official on the former president’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, said Friday on former Trump senior adviser Stephen Bannon’s radio show that “President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he’s running for president. And it’s going to be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement.”
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an election night event at Mar-a-Lago on November 08, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump addressed his supporters as the nation waits to see the results from the midterm elections.
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And Trump pushed back against criticism from plenty of Republicans who argue that the former president’s backing of far right MAGA loyalists in GOP primaries hurt the party in Tuesday’s general election, downsizing a potential red wave into a more of a trickle. Trump said Wednesday in an interview that his plans to make Tuesday’s “major announcement” have not changed.
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“We had incredible success,” Trump spoke Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman, adding, “Why would anything change?” His upcoming announcement.
However, if Trump officially announces a 2024 campaign it will immediately impact what Trump can and cannot do in the future.
Campaign finance laws would be immediately in effect. They limit the donations he can accept directly from donors, and they restrict how he can use the huge war chest his Save America political-action committee has amassed over the past 2 years.
Former President Donald Trump speaks with the media at Mar-a-Lago’s election night event on November 8, 2022 in Palm Beach. Trump spoke as the nation waits for the results from the midterm election.
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Pointing to Trump’s status as the most popular and influential politician in the GOP, the most ferocious fundraiser among the grassroots, and the overwhelming current leader in early 2024 GOP nomination polling, longtime leading Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski has urged Trump to wait on any 2024 declaration.
“Once you are elected official candidate, there are restrictions on what you can do and cannot do. Being a non-candidate is actually advantageous for a guy with 100% name ID and $100 million in the bank,” said Lewandowski, who managed Trump’s historic 2016 presidential primary campaign and has remained close to the former president.
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Trump could also announce that he would end support for the organization. Republican National Committee(RNC), must remain neutral in the rapidly growing GOP presidential nomination race. The RNC has spent millions paying some of Trump’s massive legal bills.
Sources in Trump’s political orbit tell Fox News that top aides at Mar-a-Lago are urging Trump to move forward with that announcement. They see the potential to eliminate some of the likely contenders for the nomination in an announcement made early 2024.
However, some Republicans are sceptical about the notion that Trump’s announcement could drive other candidates from the race.
GOP Gov. Chris Sununu of New Hampshire told Fox News Digital on Tuesday that a Trump announcement “does not clear the field… anyone who wants to run is still going to run.”
Sununu, who hasn’t entirely ruled out a White House bid of his own, argued that “anyone who thinks it’s a smart idea to announce a…potential presidential bid after the election but before Christmas, it’s just the worst time you could possibly do it.”
Chris Sununu is the Governor of New Hampshire. He speaks onstage at the 2022 Concordia Lexington Summit Day 1 at Lexington Marriott City Center, April 7, 2022 in Lexington.
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It’s not just Sununu.
Fox News interviewed multiple Republican strategists and they rejected the idea of Trump’s announcement deterring potential rivals like Mike Pence (ex-Vice President), Secretary Mike Pompeo (ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo), or Govs. Ron DeSantis from FloridaGlenn Youngkin, Virginia or Larry Hogan, Maryland
Trump is clearly the heavyweight, he acknowledges that. He’s the Bigfoot in the field,” longtime GOP consultant David Kochel said the former president “is not going to clear the field.:
But Kochel, a veteran of numerous GOP presidential campaigns, predicted that a Trump announcement would “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. But he’s going to have one or more serious challengers who are going to make a run at him.”
“I would imagine by the end of the first quarter of 2023 we’ll probably know who’s really going to get in,” Kochel said.
Trump’s announcement could also spark a new wave in attacks on potential nominee rivals by Trump, something that was a Trump hallmark in the volatile 2016 GOP presidential nomination race.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has been projected as one of Tuesday’s early winners.
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Trump repeatedly attacked DeSantis this week. He won a stunning re-election win in Florida on Tuesday. Youngkin was also targeted at the end. But the former president’s verbal attacks appeared to have fallen flat and garnered conservative criticism.
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Trump’s announcement was not the only thing that happened. The week after the midterms will also witness the first Republican 2024 cattle call.
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 DeSantis, Youngkin of Virginia, Kristi Noem of South DakotaSununu, Asa HUTCHINSON of Arkansas, Pete Ricketts from Nebraska, and Hogan.
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At the end of the week, as first reported by Fox News late last month, 11 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.
These are Pompeo, Haley and Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rick Scott from Florida and South Carolina, respectively, and Bill Hagerty, former governor of Tennessee, DeSantis and Sununu. Chris Christie of New Jersey
