Midterm elections | Trump is already banking on the 2024 presidential election

(Washington) Four days before the mid-term elections, Donald Trump is already planning for the 2024 presidential election, betting on a large defeat for the Democrats who, on Friday, threw all their forces into the battle to save threatened seats, including in strongholds like New York.

“I will very very very likely represent myself. Be ready, ”launched the former Republican president Thursday evening to a crowd of supporters gathered in the state of Iowa. “We’re going to take back Congress, we’re going to take back the Senate,” he added. “And in 2024, we will take back our magnificent White House. »

The billionaire, who never conceded defeat in 2020 and has been flirting for months with the idea of ​​running for a new term, continues to exert his grip on the Republican Party.

He has dubbed a large number of his candidates for these “midterms”, is increasing the rallies to support them and will probably take credit for their success if they deprive Democratic President Joe Biden of his majority in Congress.

The polls predict a large victory for the conservatives in the House of Representatives, which must be completely renewed, and have recently leaned towards a narrow Republican majority in the Senate, where a third of the seats are at stake.

If their predictions are confirmed, Donald Trump seems determined to take advantage of this momentum to formalize his candidacy as quickly as possible and thus pull the rug out from under the feet of potential rivals like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

” Sorry ”

“We can bet on a quick announcement,” admitted Thursday Kellyanne Conway, his former adviser to the White House and close ally. “You should keep your phones on you, sorry if you had other plans for the post-election,” she joked to a panel of reporters.

Citing anonymous sources, the news site Axios bet Friday on the date of November 14 for such an announcement, which could also weigh on the various legal files concerning Donald Trump.

The real estate mogul is being investigated for his role in the Capitol raid, managing White House archives and is being sued by New York State courts over his financial affairs .

In this state, in the hands of Democrats for more than 20 years, the tide could turn on November 8.

As clouds gather over Governor Kathy Hochul’s campaign, the party has sent former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris to her side.

Other Democratic strongholds, such as Oregon or Colorado, also seem weakened by the discontent linked to galloping inflation, which Republicans blame on Joe Biden.

To counter this message, the president embarked on a tour of the country, insisting on his efforts to protect the working classes and employment.

“Good Jobs”

After a stop in New Mexico devoted to the erasure of student debt, Joe Biden will be in California on Friday to tout his massive plan to support semiconductor production in the United States, then in the evening in Chicago.

In the morning, he praised the latest labor market figures – an unemployment rate of 3.7% and 261,000 jobs created in October. “While Republican leaders seem poised to applaud a recession, the US economy continues to grow and create jobs,” he said in a statement.

Admitting that inflation remained his “biggest challenge,” he vowed to tackle it. “But as long as I’m president, I won’t accept people saying that the problem is that too many Americans are getting good jobs.”

Joe Biden, whom Republicans also accuse of having let the southern border turn into a sieve and the streets of the country into a cut-throat, is trying to mobilize independent voters in defense of the right to abortion and democracy.

He plays a lot in this election: if he loses control of Congress, the end of his presidency will be paralyzed and the future complicated.

Joe Biden has so far said he intends to run again, but the prospect does not necessarily appeal to all Democrats, because of his age – soon to be 80 – and his unpopularity. A heavy defeat would shake this scenario even more.