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‘Get ready’: Trump says he will ‘very probably’ run again for president in 2024

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Donald Trump has launched a stinging attack on GOP rival Ron DeSantis following the Florida Governor’s impressive showing in the midterm elections.

The one-term president branded him “Ron DeSanctimonious” on Truth Social on Thursday, explaining exactly how the Florida politician owed him his entire career.

Mr DeSantis is now seen as a strong challenger to Mr Trump for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination.

Long-time allies and MAGA enthusiasts began to turn on the former US President Donald Trump after the midterms proved to not materialise into a “red wave” as many shifted their focus to the likely challenger for the GOP ticket in 2024, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp empire – which includes Fox News on TV and the New York Post in print – made clear their feelings about Mr Trump with a scathing cover on Thursday morning.

“TRUMPTY DUMPTY,” reading the front page in bold letters as a cartoon of the 45th president showed him appearing as Humpty Dumpty precariously perched on a brick wall.

Elsewhere, a reportedly mercurial Mr Trump spent the day after the midterm elections lashing out at those he gave him bad advice as several of the candidates he endorsed in pivotal races came up short.

Mr Trump is reportedly blaming his wife Melania Trump for advising him to back Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania senate race, which he lost to Democrat John Fetterman.

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted on Wednesday that there are people urging Mr Trump to reschedule his expected 2024 presidential campaign announcement that’s currently expected to occur next week.

Key pointsShow latest update 1668124860The endorsements that helped and hindered during the midterms

Leading up to the midterm elections, Republican candidates fought for an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. However, rather than being a golden ticket, it seems that Mr Trump’s endorsement is more of a coin flip; According to polling data from midterm contests that have been called, the former president’s preferred candidates were only successful in about half the House and governor races, though so far have been doing well in Senate races.

His longtime critic, outgoing Congresswoman Liz Cheney, did better with her endorsements, though she made significantly fewer than the former president.

Graeme Massie11 November 2022 00:01

1668124845Kinzinger says more GOP losses needed to ‘fully exorcise’ Trump from party

Gustaf Kilander11 November 2022 00:00

1668124209Allies pressure Trump to delay 2024 announcement

Republican leaders and allies are urging former president Donald Trump to delay his 2024 presidential announcement to “look at realities on the ground” amid setbacks for the GOP in midterm elections.

Mr Trump has been eager to announce his 2024 presidential race as he sought to capitalise on preassumed Republican success in the midterms. But he was stopped by Republican leaders from announcing his candidacy at a rally in Ohio and trailed an announcement on 15 November.

Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:50

1668123645’Trump either has to make a bad decision or be seen as a weak coward’

Lincoln Project co-founder tweeted on Thursday that “you don’t want to be in Mar-a-Lago right now. Trump either has to make a bad decision or be seen as a weak coward.”

Mr Trump has been urged to delay his 2024 campaign announcement, which was planned for Tuesday next week, after the Republicans did worse than expected in the midterms.

Pundits on the left and the right both agreed that the former president was the biggest loser of the night despite not being on the ballot.

Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:40

1668123071Trump amid launches furious attack on ‘average’ DeSantis and Murdoch press GOP civil war over midterms

Former president Donald Trump has lashed out at New York Post and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and Florida governor Ron DeSantis after the newspaper baron’s properties blasted the twice-impeached ex-president’s impact on the 2022 midterms and promoted the Florida governor as a potential 2024 Republican standard-bearer.

Andrew Feinberg has the story.

Trump launches furious attack on ‘average’ DeSantis and Murdoch’s press

Former president Donald Trump has lashed out at New York Post and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch and Florida governor Ron DeSantis after the newspaper baron’s properties blasted the twice-impeached ex-president’s impact on the 2022 midterms and promoted the Florida governor as a potential 2024 Republican standard-bearer.

Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:31

1668122397Trump launches explosive attack on DeSantis and Murdoch media

Donald Trump has not taken the Republican love for Ron DeSantis well following the Florida Governor’s impressive showing in the midterm elections.

The one-term president launched a stinging rebuke of “Ron DeSanctimonious” on Truth Social on Thursday, explaining exactly how the Florida politician owed him his entire career.

Mr DeSantis is now seen as a strong challenger to Mr Trump for the GOP 2024 presidential nomination.

“Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, ‘I’m only focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future.’ Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer…This is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldn’t have been nicer or more supportive,” wrote Mr Trump.

And he added: “I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the US Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his election from being stolen…”

Graeme Massie10 November 2022 23:19

1668121245DOJ and House panel ask Supreme Court to greenlight release of Trump taxes

The Department of Justice and the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee have in separate legal filings requested that the Supreme Court reject Donald Trump’s attempt to avoid having to comply with the committee’s request for his tax returns.

Trump lawyers filed an emergency application on 31 October to reject a lower court’s decision that the request for the returns was valid, Reuters reported.

The panel said in its filing that agreeing with Mr Trump would damage the an equal branch of government “by in effect preventing Congress from authority from any investigation involving a former president whenever there are claims that the investigation was politically motivated”.

Gustaf Kilander10 November 2022 23:00

1668117645VIDEO: Biden on Donald Trump’s potential presidential run

Biden on Donald Trump’s potential presidential run

Gustaf Kilander10 November 2022 22:00

1668114045Conservative writer says ‘Trump is perhaps the most profound vote repellent in modern American history’

In an essay for the New York Post, conservative writer John Podhoretz said that “Trump is perhaps the most profound vote rebellent in modern American history.”

“The surest way to lose in these midterms was to be a politician endorsed by Trump,” he added.

“Since his unlikely victory in 2016 against the widely disliked Hillary Clinton, Mr Trump has a perfect record of electoral defeat,” The Journal added. “The GOP was pounded in the 2018 midterms owing to his low approval rating. Mr Trump himself lost in 2020. He then sabotaged Georgia’s 2021 runoffs by blaming party leaders for not somehow overturning his defeat.”

Gustaf Kilander10 November 2022 21:00

1668112845 ‘If it gives you the power, why would you oppose it?’

In a CNN analysis, Chris Cillizza wrote on Thursday that “the only thing that matters to Trump is power – and how to wield it.”

An excerpt from an upcoming memoir by former Vice President Mike Pence was published in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.

Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert and other Republicans had filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to declare that I had ‘exclusive authority and sole discretion’ to decide which electoral votes should count,” Mr Pence writes.

“’I don’t want to see ‘Pence Opposes Gohmert Suit’ as a headline this morning,’ the president said,” he added, referring to a conversation he had with Mr Trump while they were both in office. “I told him I did oppose it. ‘If it gives you the power,’ he asked, ‘why would you oppose it?’

“If you had only one quote to understand Trump and how he views the world, that would be a pretty good one,” Mr Cillizza wrote.

Gustaf Kilander10 November 2022 20:40

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