After the results of the midterm elections, the Republicans issued very harsh verdicts on Trump. Also let down by Murdoch, the former president will retry the race for the White House in 2024. But does he have any hope of winning?
NEW YORK — The quickest and clearest to come out when no one knew about the Democrats retaking the Senate was former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a long-time Donald Trump ally: “With him we have the Midterms of 2018 we lost the 2020 election we lost the georgia by-election 2021 and this year 2022 we are suffering a bleed of governors we are not getting the seats in the house of representatives we thought we were going to win and we are going to don’t even win in the Senate, even though the Democrats have a president who only has a 41% approval rating. Only one person is to blame for all of this: our former President”. In a normal country, the evidence would leave no way out of the electoral mathematics. In the wake of the judgments of his party comrades – very harsh, those of the old Republican establishment, cold even of those who have always declared themselves his allies – and deserted by the newspapers and on television by Rupert Murdoch, hitherto his big bullhorn, Trump should understand that his time is up.
This will not be the case: following his character, Trump will most likely launch his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election tomorrow, he believes that the people, a minority but still exterminated by his wild fans, will follow him everywhere. And if he fails to block the ratification of Joe Biden’s election by attacking Congress on January 6, 2021, he will at least be able to guarantee him the necessary votes for the Republican nomination in the primary this time.
Putting aside allegations of electoral fraud, Trump’s first steps suggest that the former president believes he can still rely on the effectiveness of the weapons he wields to gain power: instill fear, negotiate. .. the media and conservative politicians blaming him for the defeat, while opportunists try to exploit his momentary weakness, blaming others (Republican Senator Leader Mitch McConnell) with patently false arguments and especially those who dare, with sarcasm and Slanders destroy him to challenge.
Trump has tried in recent days to dismiss criticism of the conservative press by claiming that “Murdoch’s newspapers attacked me again in 2015 and 2016. Then, after my election, they became my big supporters.” He has targeted McConnell, accusing him of not supporting Blake Masters in Arizona (but it was billionaire Peter Thiel who sponsored him, who stopped funding, and it’s just one of Trumpians’ many defeats anyway). Especially if in the past an aspiring Trump managed to demolish opponents like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Jeb Bush with a few jokes and insinuations, he might not make it this time with DeSantis for two reasons: Trump fans too love the Florida governor and they don’t want it ending up in The Donald’s mill. Second, the feeling that the former president has lost his magic touch is now widespread: even a loyalist like Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley blurted out (“stop talking about 2020”), while Herschel Walker, the Former football star Trump has imposed in Georgia against the party’s opinion and who will go to the Senate vote with Democrat Warnock on December 6th, it seems he wants DeSantis at his next rallies and not the former president.
If he hadn’t attacked him harshly before and after the vote, The Donald might even have crowned the governor of Florida as his natural successor: After all, Republican voters said with their vote that they no longer want a pathologically narcissistic Trump who goes on to looking to the past rather than the future, and selects unpresentable candidates only to wage his personal vendettas. But they’ve also shown an appreciation for the fiercely conservative policies — from immigration to education, from fighting crime to culture wars — that the former president pursued (sometimes more in words than in deeds) during his years in the White House . At that time, the governor of Florida entered the political arena and was considered his dauphin for a long time.
Until the possibility of DeSantis becoming his successor, the best interpreter of “Trumpism without Trump,” didn’t enrage the dethroned monarch. His anger in the days following the vote has only grown. The emergence of a catastrophic personal defeat—almost every candidate foisted on the colleges within reach of the right has been defeated—is a rock. And his fans will have to reflect on the “sponsorship” Trump just received from Far Left leader Bernie Sanders: “As an American, I am appalled at the idea of you being nominated again, but as a politician interested in I think it’s good to prevent another Republican president not being elected.”
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