“Hopefully today will turn out to be one of the most important days in the history of our country,”Former President Donald Trump posted early Tuesday on Truth Social, hinting at what is widely believed to be his formal entry in the 2024 presidential race.
Trump seems ready to launch his campaign, despite the pleas of his party to wait until after the Dec.6 runoff for the Georgia Senate seat. The race won’t decide which party holds Senate. It was held by Democrats after Saturday’s Nevada vote for incumbent Catherine Cortez Masto. The call came during Tiffany Trump’s wedding at her father’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The Wall Street Journal returned to its theme from last week that Trump’s prospects are exhausted, the latest effort from the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper to dampen support for the 45th president’s leadership in the Republican Party.
Trump is an example of a leader “barreling ahead”The Journal published the following statement in response to his announcement: “The irony is that more Democrats than Republicans will be elated because they see him as the easiest candidate to beat one more time,”The Journalists contributed to an editorial.
Two reasons Trump is making such a bold announcement were outlined in the opinion piece.
“The first is to try to clear the Republican field of potential competitors, especially Govs. Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin, who have shown they can win in competitive states,”The opinion piece was stated.
“Mr. Trump also wants to get ahead of a possible Justice Department indictment. If Mr. Trump is already announced as a candidate seeking President Biden’s job, he figures he can portray an indictment by Attorney General Merrick Garland as political and rally Republicans to his side,”The Journal reported that Herschel Walker, a former NFL player, was now the Journal’s favorite candidate for Georgia. “is incidental to Mr. Trump’s ambition.”
Although the piece acknowledged its identity, “many policy successes” during Trump’s four-year term, it said that “his character flaws—narcissism, lack of self-control, abusive treatment of advisers, his puerile vendettas—interfered with that success.”His “erratic behavior”Biden was the first victim of the Covid-19 pandemic. “the opening to campaign for normalcy,”It continued and Trump was the latest to join in. “lost a winnable election.”
The Journal suggested that Trump had accepted defeat. “he might now be poised for a comeback given Mr. Biden’s unpopularity.”Trump, however refused to accept the outcome “well past any reasonable limit”Then he encouraged his supporters, along with his vice-president, to march on Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“The deadly riot will forever stain his legacy,”According to the Journal.
The editorial reiterated the accusations made by the paper last week, namely that continuing to deny 2020 election results is an act of treason. “loser’s game” that helped Democrats keep the Senate and diminished the prospects for Republicans in this year’s elections. “The country showed it wants to move on, but Mr. Trump refuses—perhaps because he can’t admit to himself that he was a loser,”The Journal wrote.
“Mr. Trump will carry all of that baggage and more into a 2024 race,”It said that he has divided Republicans, even though his supporters claim he is their only candidate who could take on the job “a willful, increasingly radical left.”
“Even if by some miracle Mr. Trump won, he would have a hard time filling an Administration with top-notch people. He could only serve one more term. Republicans would be nominating an immediate lame duck.”
The Journal asked Trump if he would accept a loss in Republican primaries or try to sabotage the winner by encouraging supporters not to vote or to run as a third party candidate.
The editorial stated that Trump’s second candidacy would cause discord. “precisely what Democrats want as they hope Republicans nominate him.”
“The GOP, and the country, would be best served if Mr. Trump ceded the field to the next generation of Republican leaders to compete for the nomination in 2024. If Mr. Trump insists on running, then Republican voters will have to decide if they want to nominate the man most likely to produce a GOP loss and total power for the progressive left.”
