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Trump’s quest for revenge on Republicans who opposed him could soon come back to haunt the GOP: report

History suggests that Republicans have decent odds of capturing the House, the Senate, or both in next year’s midterm elections. In every modern midterm election except 1998 and 2002, the party out of the White House has gained seats in at least one chamber, and Democrats have only four seats to spare in the House and none in the Senate to preserve their majorities.

But as POLITICO’s Huddle noted on Tuesday, one wildcard could complicate the GOP’s efforts to make gains in 2022: former President Donald Trump’s quest for “revenge” on GOP lawmakers who haven’t shown sufficient loyalty to him.

“Donald Trump is increasingly inserting himself in the primary races of his political enemies as a form of revenge against Republicans who voted to impeach the former president after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol — despite warnings from congressional allies that he should be careful about wading into primary races,” reported Olivia Beavers.’ Continue reading.

Talk of Trump 2024 run builds as legal pressure intensifies

WASHINGTON, DC — Donald Trump was calling into yet another friendly radio show when he was asked, as he often is, whether he’s planning a comeback bid for the White House. “We need you,” conservative commentator Dan Bongino told the former president.

“Well, I’ll tell you what,” Trump responded. “We are going to make you very happy, and we’re going to do what’s right.”

It was a noncommittal answer typical of a former president who spent decades toying with presidential runs. But multiple people who have spoken with Trump and his team in recent weeks say such remarks shouldn’t be viewed as idle chatter. Instead, they sense a shift, with Trump increasingly acting and talking like he plans to mount a run as he embarks on a more public phase of his post-presidency, beginning with a speech on Saturday in North Carolina. Continue reading.

GOP frets behind the scenes over potential Trump 2024 bid

Trump is indicating he plans to run again so long as he still has a good bill of health. But he may face skepticism from surprising conservative corners of the GOP.

Republicans largely oppose forming a commission to examine the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, hoping to block out further Donald Trump-induced chaos while they try to retake Congress next year.

The former president is making clear he isn’t going anywhere.

Trump is confiding in allies that he intends to run again in 2024 with one contingency: that he still has a good bill of health, according to two sources close to the former president. That means Trump is going to hang over the Republican Party despite its attempts to rebrand during his exile and its blockade of a Trump-centric investigation into January’s insurrection. Continue reading.

Trump is using a peculiar strategy to maintain his power over the GOP: experts

Experts speaking to Newsweek say Donald Trump’s stalling when it comes to announcing whether or not he’ll run for president in 2024 could be a strategy to help maintain his grip over the Republican Party.

“There’s no doubt that Trump’s choice to delay announcing whether he will run for president extends his influence over the Republican Party,” Thomas Gift, founding director of University College London’s Center on U.S. Politics, told Newsweek. “The longer he holds out making a decision, the more the anticipation around his candidacy grows, the more ability he has to play kingmaker within the party for the 2022 midterms, and the more he can freeze out other potential GOP candidates in 2024.”

“For Trump, there’s little cost to waiting,” he continued. “If he’s genuinely eyeing the White House in 2024, securing the Republican nomination seems, if not preordained, highly likely given his resilient support within the party. If he’s not interested, then telling his supporters now can only prematurely diminish his stature and hasten his irrelevance.” Continue reading.

Biden sees Trump rematch as real possibility

Joe Biden is increasingly thinking of his possible reelection and a rematch against former President Trump.

“He knows it’s a very real possibility,” said one longtime adviser to Biden.

In an interview with Axios that aired Sunday evening, White House chief of staff Ron Klain said Biden is anticipating the possibility of running against Trump again. Continue reading.

GOP megadonors looking beyond Trump for 2024 — and they have a favorite

A new favorite has emerged among possible Republican presidential successors to Donald Trump.

Wealthy GOP donors are lining up behind the 2022 re-election campaign for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is moving past former vice president Mike Pence and other potential contenders should Trump choose to sit out the 2024 presidential race, reported Politico.

“He’s in the top tier, should he choose to run for president,” said Art Pope, a conservative donor and chair of the influential Bradley Foundation. Continue reading.

‘Keeping the attention for himself’: Trump won’t necessarily run in 2024. The trick is making Americans think he will

Although President Donald Trump has been voted out of office and is set to leave the White House on January 20, 2021, that doesn’t necessarily mean that he will disappear from the right-wing media. Trump might launch his own media company, Fox News competitors like Newsmax TV and One America News would love to have him, and talk of a presidential run in 2024 is a way for the outgoing president to fire up his MAGA base. But journalist Anita Kumar, in an article published by Politico on December 14, emphasizes that Trump doesn’t have to actually run in 2024 to excite the right — all he has to do to draw attention is float the possibility.

“Donald Trump doesn’t need to run for president again,” Kumar explains. “He just needs everyone to think he is. The president’s recent discussions with those around him reveal that he sees his White House comeback deliberations as a way to earn the commodity he needs most after leaving office: attention.”

Kumar notes that long before he was elected president in 2016, Trump drew media attention by toying with the idea of a presidential run. Trump first floated the idea back in the late 1980s, and in 2021 and beyond, one way to remain in the media spotlight is to keep Americans asking the question: will or won’t he run for president in 2024? Continue reading.

Pompeo Turns Presidential Transition to His Advantage

Many suspect that the secretary of state is already eyeing a 2024 presidential bid. And he appears to be using his last days in office to promote it.

DURING SECRETARY OF State Mike Pompeo’s tour through Europe and the Middle East last month, officials managing the trip mistakenly released a document to journalists traveling with him that contained an unusual phrase to describe U.S. policy toward Israel: the “Pompeo Doctrine.”

Recent administrations going back to Harry Truman have been associated with foreign policy doctrines, but traditional protocol in naming them defers to the president – not the chief diplomat. And Pompeo’s staff quickly seemed to sense the presumptuousness, redacting the document and instructing reporters not to share it. State Department officials have repeatedly declined to answer questions about the term on the record and privately discourage its use in the public sphere.

The reference could have been employed as a joke or a private aside among the chief diplomat, his staff and friendly officials at the newly located U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem during his stop to tout Israeli businesses in the contested West Bank. Or it could have been an unguarded look at the scope of his ambitions. Continue reading.

The Memo: Trump casts long shadow over 2024

The clock is ticking down on President Trump’s time in the White House, but he shows no sign of departing the political stage.

Speculation is growing louder that Trump will consider another presidential bid in 2024.

Whether he ultimately jumps into that race or not, the fact that he might do so has huge effects, complicating the electoral calculus for other contenders. Continue reading.

Experts: It’s possible — and necessary — to stop Trump from running in 2024

“We’re trying to do another four years,” President Donald Trump said at a Saturday night rally in Georgia. “Otherwise, I’ll see you in four years.”

Trump’s “increasingly overt flirtations with running again in 2024,” as the Associated Press put it, must be met with “a proportionate response,” wrote political scientists Alexander Kirshner and Claudio López-Guerra. The president’s transparent attempts to “subvert” the outcome of the 2020 election threaten the “viability of democracy in the United States,” they argued, and this impeachable offense should compel Congress to convict Trump, thus rendering him ineligible for a future presidency.

While political commentators are debating “the wisdom of pursuing criminal prosecutions of Trump” after Inauguration Day, the pair of scholars made the case in a Friday op-ed in The Guardian that “criminal prosecutions are not the only, or even the best mechanism for responding to the Trumpian challenge to self-government.” Continue reading.

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