Trump appears weak from midterm elections – 11/09/2022 at 21:35

The midterm elections were expected to open a path for him to launch his 2024 presidential campaign. Instead, election night was disappointing for Donald Trump, who sees his main Republican challenger swayed by the poll results.

The former White House host, who was personally involved throughout the campaign, had been dreaming of a landslide victory for his pony, before promising his “very big announcement” next week, heralding the possibility of a presidential run.

But the declared “red wave” did not sweep the country, although the Republicans are in a good position to grab a majority in the House – a priori with a short head. Control of the Senate remains highly uncertain.

“While yesterday’s election was somewhat disappointing, in my personal view, it was a great victory,” Donald Trump said on The Truth Social on Wednesday.

However, the brightest victory that night on the Conservative side was that of Ron DeSantis, the victoriously re-elected Florida governor. He is the main and strongest opponent of Donald Trump in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

His landslide victory over Democrat Charlie Crist cemented his rising star status, and a Fox New editorial on Wednesday morning crowned Mr. DeSantis as the new “GOP leader.”

Although there are no definitive, complete results, the political landscape that mapped out Wednesday morning clearly does not match expectations.

While midterms are generally favorable to the opposition, John Rogowski, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, commented that “it shouldn’t have been so difficult for Republicans.” And it gets worse in the context of rising inflation, combined with Democratic President Joe Biden’s poor popularity rating.

John Rogovsky asserted that “many of the candidates” supported by Donald Trump “have underperformed and cost their party a chance of winning a seat that could have been easily won.” At the same time, other Republican candidates with whom he publicly quarreled easily won their seats.

Example: Brian Kemp, an outspoken opponent of Donald Trump, retained his position in Georgia. The former president has long criticized Kemp’s role in ratifying the 2020 election, and has tried to dislodge him by supporting another candidate in the primaries.

– ‘Quality’ of candidates –

The results show that “you can be conservative, be principled, go against Trump and win,” George Washington University professor Peter Loegue told AFP.

“It’s really a turning point for the Republican Party,” said Jeff Duncan, a longtime Republican deputy governor of Georgia, publicly criticizing the former president. “It’s time to move on.”

Before the election, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell was concerned about the “quality” of the candidates Donald Trump had pushed to the front of the stage.

Thus the former president could have lost his “kingmaker” aura. Star surgeon Mehmet Oz, dubbed Donald Trump, notably failed to win the key and hotly contested senator seat in Pennsylvania.

In the same state, ultra-conservative and anti-abortion candidate Doug Mastriano, who was present during the storming of the Capitol, was defeated for governor.

Notable exception: In Ohio, the Trump colt J.D. Vance won the Senate. More than a hundred Republican candidates who challenged the results of the 2020 presidential elections were elected to various local and national positions, today, Tuesday, according to media expectations.

– The presidential track –

On Wednesday morning, the former president was “angry” and “yelling at everyone,” according to one of his advisers, who was quoted by star journalist Jim Acosta, who did not reveal his identity.

Donald Trump, who seemed reluctant to declare himself a presidential candidate on election eve, should keep his “big announcement” from his Florida residence on November 15.

“If I had done what I said, I would have done better, it’s your fault,” Peter Logie told the candidates who failed.

John Rogovsky predicted that if the Republicans did indeed win a majority in the House, the former president would not hesitate to “take credit for it.”

According to the expert, with the announcement of his candidacy for the presidency two years before the deadline, Donald Trump will seek to pull the rug out from under the feet of his rivals: “If he feels he is in a better position, he will not need to announce himself so soon.”