Trump confirms he will give a prime time ‘special announcement’ from Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday

Donald Trump announced that he would deliver his promised “special announcement” this Tuesday at 9 p.m. EST from his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.

It is expected, but not confirmed, that the former president will announce his intention to run for president again in 2024.

Trump announced at a rally on Monday that he would make a statement next week, but whether it would finally happen seemed up in the air after his GOP staff pleaded with him to delay the announcement until after the seat was dropped. the Georgia Senate.

The second round in Georgia is scheduled for December 6 and has the potential to determine the fate of the majority in the Senate.

The final plans for the announcement come as the president began ramping up attacks on Florida governor Ron DeSantis, who decisively won his reelection bid on Tuesday and is expected to be a GOP rival to Trump by 2024.

Both former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and his former press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the midterm elections had left Florida governor Ron DeSantis in a much better position than the former president.

Former Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who now works for Fox News, advised on the air that Trump should delay an announcement until after the second round of the Georgia Senate.

“I know there’s a temptation to talk about 2024 — no, no, no, no, no,” McEnany said in Wednesday’s issue of Outnumbered.

‘2022 is not over yet. Any Republican energy must go to bring the Biden agenda to a halt, and that could cut across the state of Georgia.”

McEnany declined to say whether Trump should appear with Walker in Peach State ahead of December 6.

When asked if the former president should go to Georgia, McEnany replied, “I think we need to make strategic calculations. Governor DeSantis, I think he should be welcome to the state, given what happened last night. You have to look at the reality on the ground.’

Georgia’s Senate race is expected to reach a runoff on Dec. 6 after neither candidate has crossed the 50 percent threshold, under the state’s electoral law. Incumbent Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock has a slight lead over Republican Herschel Walker.

As the former president finally seems ready to announce his next run for the White House, many of his standby supporters are starting to jump inside the GOP for blaming him for the Republicans’ disappointing performance in the midterm elections. .

Republicans continued to grumble about “candidate quality,” with many pointing the finger at the 76-year-old former president for backing candidates they deemed ineligible.

‘Never forget. Trump chose certain losers in races to be won,” said Gregg Nunziata, a former member of Marco Rubio’s team in the Senate.

“He picked weak candidates in otherwise slam dunk races where the side had to spend tons of money that we’d rather spend elsewhere,” Nunziata said. “And speaking of money, he’s soaked up tens of millions and spent barely a penny to help out Rs.”

Scott Reed, a veteran Republican strategist, said, “I mean, we had a historic opportunity and Trump’s solicitation of non-election candidates ruined it for us.

“Trump has now lost three elections in a row to the Republican Party and it is time to break out of this folly.”

Fox News’ White House correspondent, Jacqui Heinrich, tweeted: “GOP source tells me” if it wasn’t clear before, it should be now. We have a Trump problem.”

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defeated Democrat Charlie Crist by 19 points on Tuesday to easily win a second term. Trump called DeSantis ‘an average REPUBLICAN governor with great public relations’

Many in the GOP seem to be throwing their chips behind Ron DeSantis, characterizing him as a much more eligible candidate who doesn’t come with the baggage many fear Trump could cloud the image of Republicans.

Trump’s own former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, said DeSantis was in much better shape than Trump after the midterms.

“Between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis tonight, you want to be Ron DeSantis,” Mulvaney said.

“DeSantis wins tonight and Trump isn’t doing too well.”

Trump claimed that DeSantis begged for his approval ahead of the 2018 election. The pair can be seen together during a campaign in Tampa, Florida on July 31, 2018

Trump campaigns for DeSantis in Pensacola, Florida, on November 3, 2018 – three days before the vote

On Thursday night, Trump lashed out at Fox, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post for seemingly throwing their weight behind DeSantis after Tuesday’s win.

In a long-winded statement sent Thursday night by his PAC, Trump pointed out that the trio of News Corp media brands is “all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious,” whom he called “an average REPUBLICAN governor with great public relations.”

Trump suggested that DeSantis’ 19-point wind to reelection Tuesday was helped by the fact that the Florida governor didn’t have to close his state during the coronavirus pandemic because of the “SUNSHINE, where people from poorly run states in the north would go no matter who the governor, just like I did!’

And then Trump said it was his endorsement of DeSantis in 2018 in the Florida Republican gubernatorial primary that made him.

“Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017 — he was politically dead and lost in a landslide to a very good agriculture commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was full of cash and great polls,” Trump recalled. “Ron had little approval, bad polls and no money, but he said if I supported him, he could win.”