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Former President Donald Trump is expected to announce Tuesday nighttime that he's moving for president a 3rd time.
He has been hinting successful caller weeks and months that helium would. "I volition very, precise astir apt bash it again," Trump told rally goers successful Iowa earlier this month.
He plans to denote his candidacy astatine a 9 p.m. ET lawsuit astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida, portion Republicans are inactive reeling from voters' rejection of respective of their candidates for cardinal races — galore of whom had been endorsed and adjacent handpicked by Trump.
Some Republicans blamed Trump for boosting a slate of extremist candidates who were yet rejected by independents and did small to motivate basal voters. "The enactment needs to get past Donald Trump," retiring Pennsylvania GOP Senator Pat Toomey said aft the elections. Democratic Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman defeated Republican Mehmet Oz successful the contention for Toomey's seat.
Former Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, besides suggested Trump's clasp connected the GOP yet harmed their chances of a "red wave."
"There's important power from the erstwhile president and I deliberation that power astir apt wounded the enactment and wounded the party's chances connected Election Day," Baker told CNN.
Trump is besides facing disapproval from his erstwhile vice president, Mike Pence, aft the Jan. 6, 2021, assault connected the U.S. Capitol led to a rift betwixt the two.
Asked by ABC News whether helium believes Trump should beryllium president again, the erstwhile vice president said it was up to the American people, but "I deliberation we'll person amended choices successful the future."
Pence is simply a imaginable campaigner for president successful 2024.
Some Trump allies urged the erstwhile president to hold until aft the Dec. 6 Georgia runoff predetermination betwixt Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, as CBS News has reported, but Trump ignored them. He thought it would look anemic if helium simply announced an exploratory committee and not his campaign, a elder advisor told CBS News past week.
On the time his announcement was expected, adjacent 1 of his closest allies, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, said helium didn't deliberation Trump should denote his White House bid yet.
"I conscionable deliberation we request to get 2022 implicit earlier we talked astir 2024," helium told reporters Tuesday. He said helium thinks Trump "has a decent accidental of coming backmost — possibly a bully accidental — depending connected however the state unfolds successful adjacent year." But first, helium added, alluding to the Walker-Warner Senate runoff race, "I similar to get Georgia down us."
While Trump's power successful the enactment remains strong, the failed races of galore Trump-endorsed candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' ascendant show past week and Republicans' nonaccomplishment to seizure the Senate person raised immoderate doubts astir the erstwhile president's 2024 prospects.
He besides enters the contention saddled with idiosyncratic and nonrecreational legal battles that person not yet been resolved.
And this was the week the House Jan. 6 prime committee had demanded helium testify astir his actions surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, during the battle connected the U.S. Capitol by thousands of his supporters. He is suing the prime committee successful an effort to artifact the panel's subpoena.
Committee Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, told Trump successful a missive that the sheet has "assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your erstwhile appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 statesmanlike predetermination and to obstruct the peaceful modulation of power."
Fin Gomez, Robert Costa, Major Garrett and Alan He contributed to this report.
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