For the November 8 elections, the former president supports the most extremist candidates and remains popular with the Republican base, which allows him to envisage a new candidacy for the presidency in 2024.
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We knew Donald Trump more responsive. It took him two days to condemn the assault on the hammer of which Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi, president of the House of Representatives was victim. “A terrible thing,” said the former president on Sunday, October 30, diluting the case in a remark on crime in the United States, which would be “much worse than Afghanistan”. However, this drama marks the emergence of political violence in the midterms campaign. It extends the hate stigma of the elected democrat by the base Maga (Make America Great Again, the slogan of Donald Trump).
The silence of the former leader on the assault was not a sign of a voluntary withdrawal, before the ballot of November 8. On the contrary, Donald Trump was omnipresent during the campaign and intends to accelerate, with four public meetings to come. In Iowa, on November 3, he will support Senator Chuck Grassley, 89, rare party veteran finding thanks to his eyes, which brigs an eighth term.
Two days later, in Pennsylvania, he will express himself alongside candidate Mehmet Oz, in a key state for control of the Senate. On November 6, he will be in Miami, Florida, on the lands of his main potential rival within the Republican Party, Governor Ron Desantis, who was not aware of the trip. On the eve of the election, it will be Ohio, for the second time, with J. D. Vance. In the eyes of the ex-president, the winners will owe him everything, the losers will not have it imitated enough.
thirst for revenge
Since September, Donald Trump has multiplied these public meetings, which allow each time to arouse donations from his supporters. Admittedly, he raised on stage the softened local candidates. But the format is always a setting for its glory. It is thought of around a long intervention which revisits all the Trumpian classics, false allegations of electoral fraud in 2020 to lamentations on unbridled crime and migratory invasion. The Maga ecosystem continues to thrive in a closed circuit, with its increasingly conspiratorial references, in particular at the Extremist Movement Qanon.
According to A Washington Post count, more than one in two republican candidate (291 out of 560) engaged in an election on November 8 questioned or rejected the result of the last presidential election. What drives Donald Trump? The thirst for revenge. On October 22, the former president was in Robstown, Texas. “I have been a candidate twice. I won twice,” he said despite the facts. I have done much better the second. And now, so that our country regains success and become sure and glorious again, I’m probably going to do it again. “
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