Donald Trump 2024? It looks like it’s happening – but there’s a silver lining | Arwa Mahdawi
The former president has been dropping heavy hints that he's going to attempt a comeback. With luck he and arch-rival Ron DeSantis will rip the Republicans apart
You know how the saying goes: if at first you don't succeed then sulk like a toddler, baselessly claim that an election was stolen from you, then try, try again. After lots of will-he-won't-he it now seems almost certain that Donald Trump will run for president in 2024. Last Thursday, Kellyanne Conway, Trump's 2016 campaign lead, said that we can expect Trump to announce his candidacy soon and rumours have been flying ever since. Over the past few days, Trump advisers have been dropping hints to the media that the former president will run and Trump himself has been teasing a comeback at events across the country. On Monday, shares of the company that will take Trump's social media venture public rallied in anticipation of the idea that the guy who reportedly drinks 12 Diet Cokes a day, likes to flush White House documents down the toilet and is mired in multiple lawsuits, might become the most powerful man in the world again.
So when will Trump make this cursed announcement? Probably as soon as I file this column, knowing my luck. And I'm not the only one nervous about Trump's timing. A number of Republicans reportedly spent Monday frantically calling up Trump and begging him not to announce his candidacy until after Tuesday's midterm elections. The worry among some Republicans is that Trump's news would overshadow the midterms and send Democratic voters scrambling to the polls. Trump, in an unusual display of self-restraint, has suggested that we should all mark our calendars for 15 November when he'll make a very big" announcement from Mar-a-Lago. We want nothing to detract from the importance of tomorrow," he added, as he made an announcement he knew was guaranteed to make headlines and steal at least some attention from the midterms.
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