Republican Donald Trump announced on Tuesday (15) that he will run for the presidency of the United States in the 2024 elections, in what will be his third consecutive attempt to reach the position.
Winner in the 2016 elections, the businessman was defeated by the current president, Joe Biden, in his re-election campaign two years ago.
To get the nomination again, Trump will have to face any opponents of his party in the Republican primaries, scheduled for the period between February and July 2024.
They will take place in the 50 states, in the capital Washington and in five other North American territories around the world, defining the candidate who will dispute the presidential elections, in November.
Trump’s new phase
When he first ran for president seven years ago, one of the biggest challenges for the great New York businessman was to present himself as a serious Republican presidential candidate, facing the disbelief of political veterans and his main opponents.
Today, although he is seen as the leader of the party and has the support of a considerable part among Republican colleagues and voters, the former president will have to overcome other obstacles in the race for the White House.
At the moment when he assumes the new attempt to run for the White House, Trump is still facing the repercussions of the Republican performance in the mid-term elections. The party had hoped to turn the House and Senate around and elect a “red wave” that would mark broader leadership in Congress, but that didn’t happen.
While still waiting to confirm the majority in the House, with a few more seats than the Democrats, the Republicans have not been able to do the same in the Senate, which will continue to have a larger group of Biden allies.
In recent days, Trump has dodged criticism from fellow Republicans for his involvement in races that Democrats won, and he has lashed out at two potential GOP challengers who could complicate his path to the White House if they launch their own presidential campaigns.
The former president also lives with the expectation that he or his associates could be indicted by federal investigators in two separate Justice Department investigations.
Aides say Trump hopes his early entry into the 2024 presidential primaries will steer the conversation away from Republican failures and inject a new dose of enthusiasm into a demoralized party amid the GOP’s failures to capture Senate control and win a majority. considerable in the House.
*Published by Renata Souza, from CNN. With information from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
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