Donald Trump announcement planned. Is he running for president? - Palm Beach Post

What former President Donald Trump says contiguous could good beryllium much header fodder than what helium announces.

Trump is wide expected to finally authorities from his Mar-a-Lago nine that helium is launching a 2024 comeback run for the White House. He has been hinting, teasing, suggesting — an full thesaurus worthy of synonyms for signaling — his intentions since a precocious February 2021 code astatine a blimpish governmental enactment acme successful Orlando.

Trump publically designated Tuesday evening arsenic the clip and spot for letting the state cognize his plans. During a rally successful Ohio a week ago, helium said helium would make a "very large announcement" connected Nov. 15.

Since then, however, the ex-president has been relentlessly firing broadsides toward an full slate of governmental foes, from Florida's freshly re-elected politician to the starring blimpish media outlets, while stoking conspiracies of predetermination irregularities from Arizona to Michigan.

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That's connected apical of caller confrontations with immoderate of his long-standing bogeymen, specified arsenic Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who reports accidental the erstwhile president is angling to topple as leader of the chamber's GOP caucus. And arsenic helium works to swat distant caller inner-circle dramas — different acceptable of reports said helium had scapegoated Melania Trump and Fox News property Sean Hannity for 1 of the galore midterm predetermination defeats that person been pinned squarely connected Trump's lapels.

The disputes, the vitriol connected societal media, the intra-party feuding, each formed renewed anxiety about the substance of The Announcement. Is it astir settling scores and airing grievances? Or is it astir trumpeting a caller run taxable and absorption for the country?

A Miami-based governmental strategist and web commentator said Trump's long-established penchant to "make it each astir himself" is 1 crushed truthful galore conservatives accidental they want the GOP to look elsewhere for enactment alternatively than, again, enactment up successful lockstep down Trump successful the march to 2024.

"He's go an implicit distraction. It's weird now," said Gianno Caldwell, a Miami-based governmental expert for Fox News, 1 of the media outlets Trump slammed past week. "We request idiosyncratic who is going to unite the enactment and determination america guardant and not disagreement us."

Signs of eroding enactment are visible, adjacent successful Trump's Florida 

How wide that sentiment is shared is unknown. Especially successful his location authorities of Florida, erstwhile referred to arsenic the "Trumpiest" spot successful America due to the fact that of Trump's precocious popularity among Republicans and others.

In 2020, Trump carried the Sunshine State by 3.4%. Prior to that, during his presidency, helium regularly enjoyed popularity ratings successful the 90% scope among Florida Republicans. He has undoubtedly been the catalyst for driving the state's flip from a purple plaything authorities to a crimson-red "America First" exemplary for the country.

Signs of continued loyal fervent among the Trump basal abounded astatine the galore rallies and governmental events for Republican candidates starring up to Tuesday's vote.

"If Trump came successful and said, 'I'm going to enactment the president for the adjacent 20 years,' I would enactment him each the way," said Jacqueline Baust portion attending a rally for Gov. Ron DeSantis successful Boynton Beach this month. "I deliberation everything Trump has done for our state and for the radical successful the satellite is similar a blessing and he's the top president we've ever had."

But determination are indications Trump's enactment has seen immoderate erosion, and often astir questions of electability and likeability.

At this past July's Sunshine Summit of GOP leaders, enactment organizers and donors openly voiced their penchant for DeSantis, who immoderate said had little baggage. And a Data for Progress poll this month of Florida GOP voters enactment DeSantis up of Trump, 44% to 42%, successful a head-to-head superior matchup.

Others astatine the DeSantis rally successful Boynton Beach stated their penchant for DeSantis if the politician were to question the 2024 nomination.

Bonnie Cermak said she embraced the governor's "parental rights successful education" measures successful particular. Besides, she said, ideologically speaking, DeSantis and Trump are connected the aforesaid page. 

"I deliberation they judge successful the aforesaid thing," Cermak said. "It's conscionable that 1 has a smoother personality. DeSantis would astir apt get much votes from neutral radical due to the fact that helium has a much likable personality."

Pedro Ortega of West Palm Beach didn't adjacent hesitate erstwhile asked.

"It would decidedly beryllium DeSantis," Ortega said.

Trump has publically resented the favorable spotlight being formed connected DeSantis pursuing the governor's electoral rout past week.

"Now that the Election successful Florida is over, and everything went rather well, shouldn't it beryllium said that successful 2020, I got 1.1 Million much votes successful Florida than Ron D got this year, 5.7 Million to 4.6 Million?" helium posted connected his Truth Social level past week.

In 2022, Trump attacked 'communist' Democrats. What's helium got for 2024? 

Another question surrounding Trump is: Can the erstwhile president refresh his governmental message?

Trump barnstormed the state during the midterm elections. On the last weekend, helium rallied Ohio and Pennsylvania, sandwiching an event in Miami successful between.

In his speeches, mostly successful the 90-minute range, helium called Democrats "radical near lunatics" and "communists."

He besides spent wide segments of clip offering his mentation of the galore scandals swirling astir him. Those included the New York authorities fiscal probe, an probe of his January 2021 telephone telephone to Georgia elections officials seeking votes, the FBI seizure of classified documents astatine Mar-a-Lago and the impending study by the House committee investigating his relation successful the Jan. 6 unit astatine the U.S. Capitol.

Trump besides wove successful renewed American carnage themes from 2016. The litany included the country's "humiliating" withdrawal from Afghanistan, spiraling inflation, a porous borderline wherever smugglers postulation successful deadly fentanyl and quality victims alike.

Even this seemingly acheronian appraisal for the upcoming holiday: "Don't expect a turkey connected Thanksgiving," helium said. "Number one, you can't get them. Number two, if you tin get them, you're going to wage 3 times much than you did past year." 

Dystopia appeals to the base, but wasn't capable for GOP midterm wins 

The dystopian communicative is simply a magnet for Trump's base, rally attendance repeatedly confirmed. But assumptions they play well with the wide U.S. electorate, and those successful the du jour plaything states successful the Midwest and Southwest, got doused by a acold bucket of h2o successful this year's midterms.

Democrats are projected to support their U.S. Senate majority, and maybe summation it by a seat, aft hard-right GOP candidates Trump backed successful Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire lost. Republicans whitethorn good instrumentality the U.S. House, but by a slim bulk arsenic the expected and heralded GOP "red wave" was much similar a ripple, Florida notwithstanding.

On Friday evening, Florida U.S. Sen. Rick Scott told Fox's Hannity that "our voters didn't amusement up" and the enactment "didn't person a affirmative capable message." Scott, successful complaint of the committee to rise wealth and pb a GOP Senate takeover, added that GOP candidates "said everything that was atrocious astir the Biden agenda" but "we person to person a program of what we basal for."

A forward-looking, inspiring connection was not Trump's absorption successful the days aft Election Day.

After the "giant reddish wave" helium called for failed to inundate Democrats, the erstwhile president has been alleging predetermination fraud and irregularities in Arizona, Nevada and Michigan. But those, too, person been debunked by voting observers.

David Becker, enforcement manager and laminitis of The Center for Election Innovation & Research, said the erstwhile president's claims are unfounded.

He said the incidents successful those states resulted from sporadic glitches with machines and systems but that nary voters were turned away. Voters yet were capable to formed ballots that were counted.

"These are 100% false," said Becker of Trump's assertions, saying determination was "no evidence" that "any elector was disenfranchised." 

Come Tuesday, Florida authorities Rep. Mike Caruso said helium hopes Trump emphasizes "his policies of erstwhile helium was president" specified as border power and a beardown economy.

"We didn’t person immoderate of the issues that we person today," Caruso said. "He had a large argumentation that I deliberation made the United States stronger and amended off."

DeSantis' rout a crisp contrast to Trump, nationalist GOP disappointment

Democrats Catherine Cortez Masto successful Nevada and Mark Kelly successful Arizona  are projected to triumph their races, allowing them to support their U.S. Senate seats and securing a bulk for their enactment successful the chamber.

Even earlier then, Republicans, who inactive are connected gait to triumph a bulk successful the U.S. House, have been shaming and blaming each different implicit their midterm failures to triumph the Senate and immoderate cardinal governorships.

The lion's stock of the finger-pointing for midterm's "complete disappointment," arsenic Scott termed it, has been aimed astatine Trump, who earlier the predetermination mused that a "lot of radical accidental it's the Trump Party … but I accidental it's the Republican Party."

At the aforesaid time, the reddish tsunami successful Florida, led by DeSantis, highlighted the quality betwixt the governor's fresh, appealing governmental brand.

At the governor's Boynton Beach rally, Debbie Macchia summed up DeSantis' connection successful 1 word: "Freedom." She said his grounds of achievements spoke to that message.

"Look astatine what he's done," she said. "Just look astatine the policies, plain and simple."

Caldwell, the Fox News analyst, said that is precisely wherefore helium and truthful galore others present favor DeSantis. 

"He's got solutions. The authorities is simply a large spot to beryllium and helium has done each the close things," Caldwell added, noting the parental rights instrumentality and the $20 cardinal authorities fund surplus. "It's not conscionable scorched earth."

Trump, helium said, is moving the hazard of coming crossed arsenic "the meal guest" overstaying his welcome. "The dinner's over. It's clip to spell home," Caldwell said. 

The New York Post enactment it much abrasively: "Like the immense bulk of Americans of all parties, we desperately privation amended choices successful 2024, not immoderate grotesque re-do of the 2020 election."

But different Republicans accidental not truthful fast.

Ira Geiger of Delray Beach said helium likes DeSantis, but it's inactive Trump's information to win.

"Hopefully Gov. DeSantis understands that if Donald Trump wants to beryllium the nominee for president 2024, it's his," said Geiger. "No 1 tin triumph the superior against Donald Trump."

Antonio Fins is simply a authorities and concern editor at the Palm Beach Daily News, portion of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You tin scope him at afins@pbpost.com. Help enactment our journalism. Subscribe today.