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Most Repugs are blaming him for the losses they sustained in the midterms and he is being called a loser. Many Repugs are telling him not to announce his candidacy for the 2024 nomination. Many Repugs are touting DeSantis as their anointed one for 2024.
So I'm thinking that Tr**p's announcement tonight is to say - yes he is running for president in 2024 - but as a third party candidate and not as a Repug.
Wouldn't that be an interesting development?
50 Shades Of Blue
(9,981 posts)Probatim
(2,528 posts)A bloody good cleanser for the republican't party.
Harker
(14,015 posts)cry if I want to - you would cry too, if it happened to you."
alterfurz
(2,474 posts)2024 scenario: In the primaries, Trump & DeSantis duel each other to a draw. But when DeSantis narrowly prevails at the convention, Trump refuses to endorse his rival and instead announces his own third-party run (with VP Marjorie Taylor Greene) and slate of congressional candidates on the Humpty Trumpty ticket. On November 5, with Ron & Don evenly splitting the MAGA/Nazi/Klan/Evangelical vote, the Dems easily win both the House and a filibuster-proof Senate majority. Meanwhile, Biden-Buttigieg cruise to a 505-30 electoral landslide, carrying every state but Florida.
Hey, it could happen! An old man can dream, cant he?
randr
(12,411 posts)He must keep his victimhood intact
Beachnutt
(7,317 posts)that would be a welcome announcement imo.
Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)orleans
(34,051 posts)i googled & can't find a time.
after he finishes his hamburders?
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)I remember hearing that somewhere today.
Of course Ill be watching.
Tribetime
(4,685 posts)I want to see him burn the party to the ground I'm gonna have a beer and enjoy it
Walleye
(31,016 posts)Zambero
(8,964 posts)His sense of revenge could be more acute toward the party wishing to throw him overboard.
Walleye
(31,016 posts)IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... it will be much easier for him to run as GOP and totally mess up, put the final touches, on the collapse of the GOP. Remember, there are still significant numbers of Trump Humpers to mess up GOP elections, as we have seen.
If he runs on another party ticket, he will get less media attention.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Those are the only 2 things that Chump really wants.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,784 posts)TDFG will still go on the attack on Republicans in his childish and spiteful manner for the blame they are placing on him.
ZonkerHarris
(24,221 posts)republianmushroom
(13,588 posts)Sogo
(4,986 posts)Split the R vote; Dems waltz through the hole....
vlyons
(10,252 posts)getting it on the ballot in 50 states takes work AND money. And we all know that Trump doesn't like to work. So if he announces creating a 3rd party, it's just another grift for suckers to throw money at.
PortTack
(32,757 posts)Walleye
(31,016 posts)GoodRaisin
(8,922 posts)while he plays golf and flies around doing hate rallies.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)A wombat?
A worm
A snake
A casino chip
geardaddy
(24,926 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)geardaddy
(24,926 posts)of course.
Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)About the correct color and consistency.
Generic Brad
(14,274 posts)That is the most appropriate image that comes to my mind.
Vinca
(50,269 posts)Stuart G
(38,420 posts)Blue Owl
(50,355 posts)Chainfire
(17,532 posts)America really needs a third party alternative. Democrats and two Republican parties; the Facists and the Damned Fascists!
WarGamer
(12,439 posts)rrze
(20 posts)My bet is that he announces something other than run for 24 as an R:
possibilities:
1.leaving truth social for twitter reinstatement (Musk there)
2. fake lawsuits against jan 6 committee
3. new party as mentioned MAGA (not R) with MTG (yuck) by his side
4. Announcing running mate but not official start of campaign (see #3)
other prediction:
no Ivanka or Jared or Melania but will force Jr. there with his demon stripper
GuppyGal
(1,748 posts)Gato Moteado
(9,853 posts)....first beat up desantis in the primary, and then after losing to desantis anyway, run as a 3rd party candidate when it's too late for the GOP to prepare for that.
that would be an automatic dem win for the white house in 2024.
Turbineguy
(37,322 posts)Just to deprive us of his intelligence, class and general couth-ness, causing great wailing and gnashing of teeth as he owns us libs.
Meadowoak
(5,545 posts)Torchlight
(3,330 posts)Throwing it at the wall, I'm expecting Trump to get on tonight and begin hawking some new media platform or multi-level membership to the his all-new He-Man Woman Hater's Club or whatever new catch phrases they're using this go-around. I just don't the sense he's going to announce.
But I'm wrong more often than I'm right, my idle speculation holds zero consequences, and my guesses are usually based on nothing more than how tasty my last cup of coffee was.
Martin68
(22,794 posts)Traildogbob
(8,724 posts)Appointed Speaker of the House. Cant prosecute sitting Speaker. Then 2024 he could reject all delegates not for him, assign himself as winner of presidency and never leave and never see a minute of consequences for all his crimes.
Surely it is too absurd to think it could happen, here in MurKKKa. But ya can bet Bannon and Hannity have planted the seed.
He could make Newt Gingrichs time as Speaker seem like an American Hero.
Or as Speaker, Biden and Kamala impeachment could make Dump president. Sure it cant happen, but ya think Q has not got that in their sights?
debm55
(25,164 posts)honestly don't think he is capable of being President.
SKKY
(11,804 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)It didn't go well
inthewind21
(4,616 posts)It's all a bunch of hoopla for nothing. Just to draw attention to himself. I predict it will be nothing more than the 5,043,629th regurgitation of an incoherent I'm the greatest and they're all losers rant. He's not going to give up the RNC legal money spigot, that might cut into his grift .
https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3721990-rnc-chair-says-committee-cant-pay-trumps-legal-bills-if-he-announces-2024-run/
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)However he may throw that in as a threat.
TNNurse
(6,926 posts)llmart
(15,536 posts)maybe he'll be running up the escalator to show how fit he is.
(You know I'm joking about the running part, right?)
Joinfortmill
(14,417 posts)Renew Deal
(81,856 posts)And I doubt he wants to fight for something he believes is his without the excuse that it was stolen.
The downside is that he would almost certainly lose the GE as a 3rd party candidate. At best bed get a majority of republicans while Democrats hold firm.
jonstl08
(412 posts)Would it not be funny if he decides to file a lawsuit against Mitch McConnell blaming him for the election losses. I mean he hates McConnell with a passion so I would not put it past him.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,318 posts)BidenRocks
(826 posts)Bull crap party.
AverageOldGuy
(1,523 posts). . . the press would just ignore Trump -- broadcast, cable, and print media -- juist ignore him. We live 2 jhours from Richmond, VA, and must go there at least once a month for wife's doc appointment(s). All the way down and back we listen to Sirius satellite radio. We gave up listening to CNN and MSNBC (as well as dropping them from our viewing at home) because they both are the 24/7 Trump News Channels -- it's Trump, Trump, Trump day in, day out.
WHY CAN'T THE BROADCAST, CABLE, AND PRINT MEDIA JUST DROP HIM???
Yes, I know he's a formeer President but WTF does he do as former President? Does he sponsor charities, feed starving, build Habitat for Humanity houses, rescue dogs and cats, build a Presidential library? NO. All he does is feed his fat ass, play golf, and bitch at the rest of the world.
JUST DROP HIM. I guarantee no one would miss him.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)Trump is the Republican Party.
Signed A never Trumper
wiggs
(7,812 posts)some gop candidates...and about whatever else will make others look bad. After all, his favorite pastime is making others look bad. He would love to get the last laugh on his co-conspirators who no longer support him (Lindsay is apparently still trying to save himself).
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)If he does run, and he doesn't get the nomination, he'll go scorched earth.
niyad
(113,275 posts)themaguffin
(3,826 posts)Justice matters.
(6,928 posts)In the meantime, let's see de$antanass destroy him in the debates (many "subjects" to accuse him of... like the biggest deficit ever recorded in 4 years et al).
Kablooie
(18,628 posts)It's too excellent to expect.
Caliman73
(11,736 posts)Away from the money that the Conservative movement has, Trump's candidacy would fail instantly. He won't spend his own money, and his followers don't have enough to sustain him.
Trump has benefitted from the largess of very wealthy people who were able to get their payout with massive tax cuts. They appear to be done with him because he can offer them no more. Without the apparatus, all Trump is, is a carnival barker. If he runs 3rd party he will crash and burn, and turn into a laughing stock.
If he announces anything tonight, it will be that he is going to "reclaim the Republican Party from all the haters" and run in 2024.
Warpy
(111,252 posts)Revenge can be best served by continuing the grift, sucking small donations away from other candidates, something that would also fatten his coffers considerably.
Starting his own party, all razzle dazzle and no substance, is probably a dream to him. It is also unlikely to succeed for the full two years until the next election as his ideas are yuge but his follow through non existent.
A third party bid is likely to happen if someone else gets the nomination. That, he can do.
Ford_Prefect
(7,894 posts)And Donny knows this...
Subpoenas can be delayed and evaded over time. Arrest Warrants not so much.
karynnj
(59,503 posts)Both the Republican party and Democratic party to also select him. He will run on multiple lines.