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Trump launches his 2024 campaign

Wednesday, Nov 16, 2022

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Kyle Nowak|Peter Nowak

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In a speech from his Mar-a-Lago estate last night, former President Donald Trump announced his intention to run for president in 2024, aiming to become the second person to ever win non-consecutive presidential terms.

This announcement also makes him the first former president to run again since 1912, when Teddy Roosevelt did it. And it comes on the heels of a midterm election where Republicans turned in the weakest performance for an out-of-power party against a first-term president since 2002.

🗳️ How did a Trump endorsement perform this cycle?… While he wasn’t officially on the ballot, the former president endorsed a total of 187 Republican congressional candidates in this month’s midterm elections. The vast majority were located in GOP strongholds.

  • Of the 28 Trump-endorsed candidates in competitive races – rated by the Cook Political Report – 15 won, 11 lost, and two are still undecided.

🤔 What do the polls say?... Trump leads Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by a 47-33 margin in a hypothetical Republican primary matchup, per a new poll from Morning Consult published yesterday. Before the midterms, that margin was 48-26.

  • The former president trails in a hypothetical matchup versus President Biden by a margin of 48-42, per the most recent polling from YouGov (taken pre-midterms).

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Sprinkles from the Left

  • Some commentators argue that Trump and his supporters can no longer pretend to be good-faith participants in the democratic process, and his candidacy represents another challenge to American democracy as a whole.
  • Others contend that the threat Trump represents isn’t that the American people will say yes to his latest candidacy, but that when they say no, he’ll once again do whatever he can to subvert that decision.
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Sprinkles from the Right

  • Some commentators argue that, while Trump accomplished a lot during his first term in office, the GOP and America as a whole would be best served if he quietly disappeared – which was never going to happen.
  • Others contend that Trump has a good chance to win the 2024 presidential election, as he remains the de-facto leader of the Republican party unless someone can prove otherwise, and President Biden is historically unpopular among the general public.
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