The first three weeks of donald trump as a candidate for the presidency United States in the 2024 election were negative for the goal of eliminating internal competition after an unusual and expected announcement Republican Party partly one of his reasons for the early announcement. Time has exposed Trump’s vulnerabilities and provided considerable ammunition for rival Republicans who argue the former president needs to be turned.
Since midterm election results ended in a series of humiliating defeats for him because candidates he supported failed to create leaders under his tutelage, Trump has hosted a white supremacist leader and an antiSemitic celebrity at his South Florida residence.
In his appearances, he proposed the end of the constitution the one the president vows to preserve, protect and defend to support the lie that the 2020 election had been rigged to steal from him, and dropped the company convicted of 17 charges of tax fraud in new York🇧🇷
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Iowa October 9, 2021. After announcing his precandidate run for the presidency, Trump made a series of mistakes that hampered his goals Photo: Rachel Mummey/Portal
On Tuesday night, the 6th, his Georgia Senate nominee — former soccer star Herschel Walker, who was a Trump employee during the brief stint he was a team owner in the 1980s — became famous after a campaign to remember handpicked as a series of scandals and mistakes of its own.
Trump ramped up his selfsabotage and that same Tuesday hosted another extremist figure at his home who, according to ABC News, posed for photos with a “thumbs up” next to an ardent supporter of conspiracy theories named QAnon and “Pizzagate.”
Defeats and embarrassments are rapidly piling up around Trump and have exacerbated longstanding concerns among his Republicans that his 2016 victory may have been an anomaly and that insistence on trying to return to the presidency has stymied the party’s hopes of regaining the presidency presidency could nullify 2024. “I know a lot of people in our party love the former president,” the senator said Wednesday, April 7 Mitt Romney on Capitol Hill regarding Walker’s defeat. “But he was, if you allow me to say so, the whitewash for those who wanted to win the elections. At some point we have to move on and look for new leaders to lead us to victory.”
Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist and former chief adviser to the US Chamber of Commerce, called the past three weeks “devastating for Trump’s future viability.” “The rushed announcement, serious legal troubles and defeats of its handpicked senator candidates who have once again wrested control of the Senate from the Republican Party have raised serious concerns from donors and supporters alike,” Reed said.
It’s too early to assess the longterm impact of the wave of defeats and denunciations on Trump’s candidacy, especially given his record of remaining influential despite controversy.
Trump’s rise mirrored and accelerated the rise of the rightwing Republican Party. In party polls, he has solid support from at least 25% of Republicans and remains a favorite for the possible presidential nominee. However, it’s unclear whether Trump can build on his appeal to garner the broad support that gave him a surprise victory in 2016.
The start has been unfavorable for Trump, who has so far led Republicans to defeat in three consecutive election cycles.
Trump ignored most advisers and decided to announce the candidacy a week after the midterm elections, certain of a result favorable to Republicans. But instead, the Republican Party narrowly won back the House of Representatives and failed to gain control of the Senate.
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The result has led many Republicans to blame Trump for his support of unqualified candidates and the pressure he put on them to support lies about the 2020 election. By a small margin, it would have cleared Trump’s path to the nomination and quickly resolved the issue,” said Lori Corbin, Arizona Republican National Committee representative. “Now we just don’t know what’s going to happen.”
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The picture shows Republican Party US Senate nominee Herschel Walker during the election campaign in a picture taken on the 5th this month. Walker was one of the Trumpbacked politicians who lost in the election Photo: Ben Gray / AP
Trump has not attended any precampaign events, appointed any officials to key posts for his campaign, or established any committees since entering the race. He’s been staying at MaraLago, his Florida resort, most of the time, where he remotely attends some public events — like a virtual rally he organized for Walker in Georgia.
However, the former president found time to have dinner on November 22 with rapper Kanye West, an artist Trump has repeatedly sought credit for during his tenure and has been denounced for a series of antiSemitic comments, and white supremacist Nick Fuentes . a notorious racist and Holocaust denier. When Trump’s former ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, criticized him, the former president privately complained that he had been disloyal.
In a statement, Trump’s communications adviser Steven Cheung dismissed the problems surrounding the launch of the precampaign, arguing that Trump is “the most dominant force in politics” and insisting everything is going according to plan. “We are focused on building the campaign and setting up the committee to do an amazing job that has never been seen before,” Cheung said. “We’re building our teams in states with early elections and making sure we’re capable of winning at every level.”
Trump’s defeats include serious legal problems. A fouryear attempt to block Democratic congressmen from accessing tax returns ended in a Supreme Court defeat, and the House Tax Committee said Nov. 30 that it had gained access to the former president’s six years of tax returns. In addition, the lawsuit filed by Trump, which delayed the investigation of classified documents kept at MaraLago by nearly three months, was dismissed in a federal court on December 1.
We are focused on building the campaign and setting up the committee to do mindblowing work like never seen before.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications advisor
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Finally, a New York jury found his family’s company guilty of 17 counts relating to a tax fraud scheme that prosecutors said represented a “culture of fraud and fraud” at the company.
The defeat in Georgia is the culmination of a bad year for Trump
Walker’s loss Tuesday in his runoff race to Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock was the culmination of Trump’s dismal year as a political strategist.
Trump urged Walker to run and backed him early in the candidate’s primary campaign, although Republicans in Washington urged him to exercise caution over longstanding allegations of domestic violence against Walker. The former president insisted the former soccer star would get over the allegations just as he got over the scandals.
But even though Walker kept the race surprisingly close amid the barrage of headlines about the existence of previously unknown children and abortion requests he was making to exes the former athlete lost by around 100,000 votes and the Democrats won a valuable 51st seat in the Senate.
Julianne Thompson, a Republican adviser in Atlanta and a former spokeswoman for the Republican Party in Georgia, said the overall results of the state’s midterm elections in which voters rejected Trumpbacked candidates for senator, governor, secretary of state and attorney general showed that “a lot of people are the questioning the leadership of the party”. “There’s a large segment of the Republican Party that is ready to move forward,” she said.
More broadly, Trump’s terrible, terrible, downright bad, bad three weeks have raised the possibility that his seeming imperviousness to the normal rules of political gravity has finally eased.
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Trump bypassed most advisors and decided to announce the candidacy and an opportunity to challenge Trump,” said Michael Barnett, Republican Party leader for Palm Beach County, Fla. “I don’t think his influence has diminished that much if at all but he will have opponents.” / TRANSLATION BY AUGUSTO CALIL