Potential rivals in the 2024 contest for the Republican nomination reacted to former President Donald Trump’s entry into the race. Among them was Govs. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) and Larry Hogan (R-MD).

Ivanka Trump says she do does not plan to rejoin her father, former President Donald Trump, in government if he is reelected in 2024.

She issued a statement around the time the elder Trump wrapped up his speech announcing a new bid for the White House.

“I love my father very much. This time around, I am choosing to prioritize my young children and the private life we are creating as a family. I do not plan to be involved in politics. While I will always love and support my father, going forward I will do so outside the political arena,” Ivanka Trump said.

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President Joe Biden, overseas in Indonesia, didn’t offer much comment about former President Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid.

Asked by a reporter for reaction to his political foe’s announcement, Biden said, “not really.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) gave a positive review of former President Donald Trump’s speech.

“If President Trump continues this tone and delivers this message on a consistent basis, he will be hard to beat,” Graham tweeted. “His speech tonight, contrasting his policies and results against the Biden Administration, charts a winning path for him in the primaries and general election.”

“As we listen to President Trump remind us of what is possible regarding our borders, economy, and national security, it is my hope that he will continue to focus on the solutions that he offered tonight to restore a broken America,” he added.

Donald Trump finished his 2024 presidential announcement speech with his signature line saying, “we will make America great again.”

Melania Trump accompanied Trump for his 2024 presidential announcement Tuesday.

As Trump ended his speech, calling for making America “glorious again,” the former first lady joined Trump on stage and smiled and waved to the Mar-a-Lago crowd.

Donald Trump said that “it’s time” to put term limits on members of Congress in order to “drain the swamp.”

“We will dismantle the deep state and restore government by the people. To further drain the swamp, I will push for a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress,” Trump said.

Donald Trump gave a shout out to his son, Eric Trump, for having to deal with “more subpoenas than any man in the history of our country.”

“Eric Trump got more subpoenas, he’s a PhD in subpoenas,” Trump said. “And I appreciate the job you do and abuse you have taken, I really do.”

Former President Donald Trump said to “eliminate cheating” in U.S. elections, he’ll demand voter ID, same-day voting, and “only paper ballots.”

Donald Trump’s announcement speech has passed the hour mark as the 76-year old continues to tout his record and discuss what he wants to do if re-elected to the White House in 2024.

Donald Trump vowed to reinstate members of the military who were discharged because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and called on them to receive their pay back.

“We will abolish every Biden COVID mandate and rehire every patriot who was fired from our military with an apology and full back pay,” Trump said.

Donald Trump called for drug dealers to receive the death penalty.

“We’re going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, gets the death penalty for their heinous acts,” Trump said.

Donald Trump quipped that he calls Chinese President Xi Jinping “king.”

“I was with President Xi, who’s now President-for-life. I call him King and he said, ‘No no I’m not the king,’ and I said, ‘Yes you are king, you’re president for life.’ That’s the same thing,” Trump said.

Donald Trump touted building a wall on the southern border during his term as president and said that he will add to the wall if elected to a second term.

“We built the wall and now we will add to it,” Trump said as he touted his border strategy.

President Joe Biden has responded to former President Donald Trump’s announcement that he is running for president again.

Biden, from his personal Twitter account, tweeted a video with the caption “Donald Trump failed America.”

The video criticizes Trump, including saying the former president rigged the economy for the rich and claiming that he incited a mob on Jan. 6, 2021.

Democrats got their wish. Republicans, for the second time in a week, failed to get theirs. Former President Donald Trump has announced he’ll seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.

This means that for the next two years, while the party of the Left continues to wreck the economy and traduce the culture of the country, the only party that can provide an alternative could be ripping itself apart. The one hope is that Trump’s waning popularity and growing weakness accelerate him into irrelevance.

This is not a faint hope either, for there has been a sea change in conservative and right-wing attitudes against him. The Republican base, its national leaders, and its many successful governors increasingly regard his renomination as something that comedian Dave Chapelle might describe as “observably stupid.”

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Jamie Harrison responded to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential candidacy announcement.

“Today is just the kickoff to what will be a messy Republican primary with candidates competing to be the most extreme MAGA Republican in the race. The DNC will be ready for them all,” Harrison said in a statement.

Donald Trump mocked his successor President Joe Biden for missing the G-20 gala in Indonesia on Tuesday.

“He’d never showed up. They’re still looking for him what’s going on?” Trump said.

The White House did not provide specifics for why Biden missed the gala, only saying that “he has other matters he needed to attend to.”

Donald Trump said, “I am running because I believe the world has not yet seen the true glory of what this nation can be.”

Donald Trump formally announced his 2024 bid for the presidency.

“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said.

Donald Trump applauded the GOP for being projected to take back control of the House.

He gave a shout out to House candidate Kevin Kiley of California, whom he endorsed, for being the one who “did it.”

The Associated Press has not yet called the race or House control yet, but Kiley declared victory after at least one outfit called the race for him.

Donald Trump addressed the missiles that hit Poland and killed at least two people.

“Even just today a missile was sent in, probably by Russia, to Poland—50 miles into Poland—and people are going absolutely wild and crazy and they are not happy they are very very angry,” Trump said.

“Two years ago, we were a great nation. And soon we’ll be a great nation again. The decline of America is being forced upon us by Biden and the radical left lunatics running our government right into the ground…,” former President Donald Trump said, according to journalist Katie Couric.

Former President Donald Trump said, “Now we are in a nation in decline. We are a failing nation.”

Donald Trump speculates “China played a very active role in the 2020 election.”

Former President Donald Trump said “America’s comeback starts now” at the start of his remarks.

The White House debuted a new webpage touting the “Biden-Harris Record” as former President Donald Trump is expected for formally announce he is once again running for President.

The website touts the administration’s “top accomplishments” and makes the case for how President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris delivered “results for the American people.”

The webpage also said their administration “faced unprecedented crises” when they took office, appearing to take a jab at the Trump administration.

The Biden-Harris ticket defeated Trump in 2020.

Former President Donald Trump walked into the ballroom with his wife, Melania Trump, ahead of his remarks.

A voice on the loud speaker introduced them as the “next president and first lady of the United States.

Many in the crowd had their phones out recording Trump as he walked onto the stage.

President Donald Trump filed a statement for his 2024 presidential bid with the Federal Election Commission.

It was reported a little more than 10 minutes before Trump was expected to announce his campaign.

Former President Donald Trump is facing backlash from top donors angered he failed to spend more to help secure Republican majorities in Congress after wading into key races with endorsements and raking in mountains of cash.

Wealthy political donors who helped fuel Trump’s fundraising operation expected the former president to juice the Republican candidates he fielded during the general election. Instead, millions of dollars are still sitting in Trump’s coffers, according to federal election records.

A Republican said Trump was on the receiving end of “extraordinarily severe” phone calls from donors incensed by how their contributions were handled. Trump’s response has been to apportion blame on those around him, including the aides charged with overseeing the operation.

The former president’s fundraising apparatus amassed mountains of cash ahead of the general election, spending only a fraction of the more than $130 million it collected, according to federal data compiled by OpenSecrets.

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Recalling how former Vice Presidents Al Gore and Dan Quayle fulfilled their roles in certifying elections they lost was much more influential in former Vice President Mike Pence’s ceremonial ending of the 2020 campaign than his boss, former President Donald Trump.

In one of several interviews to promote his new book, Pence said he looked to the examples of Quayle and Gore in deciding to certify the election of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Jan. 6, 2021.

On SiriusXM’s Julie Mason Mornings today, Pence said that he received some advice from Quayle, who lost his job in the 1992 election when he ran with former President George H.W. Bush against Bill Clinton and Gore.

“I was grateful that Vice President Quayle said that, when we spoke, that he was simply confirming what I already intended to do, and it was all born of the belief in my heart as a student of the Constitution and a student of history, as I recount in my book, that, you know, the presidency belongs to the American people and to the American people alone,” said Pence.

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Even though the vote-counting process embarrassingly drags on in a few states, House leadership elections are about to take place. Assuming they win a majority, Republicans will elect a speaker, a majority leader, a whip, and a conference chair.

Most people probably don’t even know what the House Republican conference chair does. Even so, the race for this fourth-ranked leadership position in the House is already shaping up to be the most important leadership race in years. The main reason is that the two announced candidates are already taking opposite sides in the 2024 presidential race.

Rep. Byron Donalds, a staunch black conservative representing a district in southwest Florida, is reportedly telling colleagues that he is backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over Donald Trump for president in 2024.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, the incumbent House Republican conference chairwoman, was supposed to develop House Republicans’ party message during the election that just concluded. She is a more centrist congresswoman from New York’s North Country. After the election, she immediately endorsed Trump for president — the first member of Congress to do so. She has also made the rounds on television, embarrassingly attempting to downplay the Republicans’ disappointing failures in the midterm elections.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) endorsed former President Donald Trump in an expected third campaign for the White House.

“President Trump has my full endorsement and my support as our Republican nominee in 2024,” the firebrand conservative told reporters, according to a clip posted to social media on Tuesday.

Trump is expected to announce a 2024 campaign at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this evening, and Greene said he energizes the base and increases voter turnout while talking about the upcoming Senate runoff in Georgia. Greene is reportedly under consideration to be Trump’s running mate.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he doesn’t think former President Donald Trump should announce a third run for the White House Tuesday.

“I don’t think President Trump should announce his run tonight. I think most people in the conference would prefer President Trump not announce tonight,” Graham told reporters.

Graham turned from one of Trump’s biggest critics ahead of the 2016 election into one of his largest supporters, even walking back harsh criticism of the former president after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Graham did not appear ready to make an endorsement in the 2024 race.

“I’m not really willing to go into too many details on that,” Graham said. “I just think that with Georgia outstanding, I would like to finish 2022 in terms of leadership elections and presidential announcements. We got to figure out what went wrong.”

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An airplane carrying a banner blaring “You lost again Donald!” flew over former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

A reporter shared to Twitter a photo of the banner, which also said, “#DeSantis2024.”

Former President Donald Trump’s expected campaign announcement Tuesday will pitch voters on his plan for a second term in office that would revive frustrated pillars of his 2016 bid and first-term agenda.

A source close to Trump said that while not an exhaustive list, the former president would discuss the flagging economy, the energy crisis, and surging crime, pointing to his address to the America First Policy Institute this summer that painted a picture of a nation in decay. Trump will also swipe at a Republican establishment that has heaped criticism on him following the midterm elections.

“He will cover the waterfront,” the person said.

Trump is expected to make the case for finishing what he started in his first term.

“He’s going to deliver a fairly lengthy second term agenda of what he could do if he were elected again,” said Dick Morris, a former Clinton strategist, longtime Trump family friend, and informal adviser to the ex-president who is in Florida to attend the 9 p.m. announcement at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

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WEST PALM BEACH, Florida — Former President Donald Trump is expected to launch a 2024 bid for the White House, even as some Republicans are looking to dump him following Republicans’ underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterm elections.

Trump’s announcement will be made Tuesday evening in prime time, live from his private club in South Florida, Mar-a-Lago. However, some of his close advisers urged him in recent days to hold off until after the conclusion of Georgia’s Senate runoff election in December.

As a whole, Trump’s stock has slipped in recent weeks. His endorsed candidates suffered key losses on election night, including both the Senate and gubernatorial races in Pennsylvania, while Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has seen his star rise with likely Republican voters following a landslide, near 20-point reelection effort.

For his part, Trump has sought to elbow “DeSanctimonious” out of the race before either enters. He released a lengthy statement two days after the election lashing out at the “average” governor and his refusal to declare a desire to run for president.

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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo downplayed his old boss’s speculated 2024 debut, stressing it won’t stop him from mounting a campaign of his own if that’s his decision.

Saying his decision will be made in the spring, Pompeo explained that he has been conferring with his wife about vying for the White House and appeared to take a veiled dig at former President Donald Trump, calling for leadership that is not “staring in the rearview mirror claiming victimhood.”

“Our decision about whether that’ll be by putting ourselves forward in the election that’s ahead of us still is a decision to be made. But what happens today or tomorrow — what some other person decides won’t have any impact on that,” Pompeo told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt on Tuesday.

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The daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump urged Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to postpone his presidential dreams until 2028, warning that a 2024 run would fracture the “MAGA movement.”

“I think that Ron DeSantis is very smart,” Lara Trump told Sky News host Erin Molan. “There will be a lot of opportunity for him in the future … to run for president.”

The former president is expected to launch his presidential campaign during an event Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago.

“I think he’s probably waiting to see what my father-in-law does,” Lara Trump said. “And I think he’s a smart enough guy to know that it will be great to have all this support of this party, of the ‘America First,’ MAGA movement, whatever you want to call it, fully behind him in 2028 than possibly fracturing it in 2024.”

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A onetime staunch ally of Donald Trump and prominent figure of the “Stop the Steal” rally is calling for the former president to ditch his White House aspirations — for the good of the Republican Party and of the country.

“If President Trump wanted to put America first, he would not run,” Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday ahead of Trump’s expected 2024 campaign announcement.

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Chris Christie drew an applause from attendees at a Republican governors event for a speech in which he reportedly pinned the blame for Republicans’ midterm woes on former President Donald Trump.

A speculated 2024 contender and former chairman of the Republican Governors Association, Christie told attendees that voters “rejected crazy” in the midterm cycle and that the GOP fielded a slew of poor candidates, three sources told Axios. He also argued that Trump bogged down the GOP in the last three elections cycles.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was reportedly not in the room at the time, though he gave a keynote address to the RGA at some point Tuesday.

Christie, one of the earliest 2016 primary rivals to turn and back Trump, has begun sharpening his criticism of his old friend in recent months, drawing occasionally jabs from Trump in response.

Former President Donald Trump lampooned his speculated 2024 GOP nemesis Gov. Ron DeSantis, flashing an old video of the Florida governor praises him.

Dangling a 2018 gubernatorial campaign ad in which DeSantis billed himself as a Trump sycophant, Trump facetiously thanked the Sunshine State governor, the latest in the former president’s onslaught against DeSantis ahead of his expected 2024 debut.

“Thanks Ron,” Trump quipped in a post on Truth Social, with a screenshot of the 2018 campaign ad.

In a tongue-in-cheek ad, seemingly no longer available on his YouTube page, DeSantis was shown building a toy wall and reading a book about Trump to his children, brandishing himself as a “pit bull Trump defender.” Trump endorsed DeSantis in a heated primary, and he later eked out a narrow win in the 2018 general election.

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Republicans have a new chief in charge and it’s not former President Donald Trump, according to a senator who was asked if she would endorse him.

“I don’t think that’s the right question. I think the question is who is the current leader of the Republican Party? Oh, I know who it is: Ron DeSantis,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) told a Politico reporter.

“I’m saying currently, Ron DeSantis is the leader of the Republican Party, whether he wants to be or not,” she added.

Her remarks came on the heels of a dismal GOP showing in the midterm elections last week, where Florida was widely seen as an electoral bright spot for the party.

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Despite the midterms, former President Donald Trump still retains a commanding position within the party, according to a new poll.

Trump garnered 47% in a hypothetical 2024 GOP primary with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ringing in at 33%, and no other candidate surpassing 5%, a Politico/Morning Consult poll found.

It marks a slight dip for Trump, who got 48% before the midterm elections. But support for DeSantis has ballooned from 26%. However, when assessing all voters, the poll found 65% leaned against Trump running again, spelling potential hurdles for a general election bid.

While most polls have shown Trump leading the GOP pack, some have shown waning support for the former president amongst conservatives. For example, a Club for Growth poll released Monday showed him trailing DeSantis by double-digits in Iowa and New Hampshire, key presidential primary states.

Trump had led DeSantis in Iowa and broke even with him in New Hampshire in the prior poll from the anti-tax group.

Weather conditions will likely hamstring Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-FL) plans to attend the hotly anticipated Mar-a-Lago event Tuesday evening.

Maintaining that he will be there “in spirit,” Gaetz explained that he believes the outlook isn’t great for him to travel down to Mar-a-Lago to attend former President Donald Trump’s speculated 2024 campaign launch in person, according to an Associated Press reporter.

Gaetz was one of a handful of representatives planning to attend the event. With Congress back in session, members have been back in Washington, D.C. with the next Congress getting orientated, with members striving to cram through last-minute bills.

Others such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have mused about attending the event, but have not necessarily committed to it.

A week ago, the midterm elections were supposed to serve as a springboard for former President Donald Trump to catapult a 2024 campaign debut with favorable political winds from a red wave at his back.

Now the midterms appear to be overshadowing his launch, with some in Trump’s orbit reportedly feeling boxed in with the “very big announcement” he teased at Mar-a-Lago for Nov. 15.

“For some reason, it’s just stuck in his head that he’s got to do this,” a source close to Trump told Axios. “And he can’t be talked out it.”

Privately, some allies of Trump have wished that he would postpone announcing until after the Georgia runoff between Republican Herschel Walker and Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) — a race that could give Democrats another pickup opportunity after clinging to a 50-seat plus tiebreaker majority in the Senate.

Still, others have insisted that withdrawing now would show weakness.

“I think the people who wanted him to delay the announcement were well-intentioned, but just didn’t think it all the way through,” another adviser in the MAGA world told Axios.

“After announcing his announcement, had he delayed it, he would have gotten destroyed in the media for being weak and probably would have caused him even more long-term damage,” the source added.

Fresh off his midterm reelection win, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said when it comes to recent comments made by former President Donald Trump saying he won more votes in the 2020 election than DeSantis received this time.

“At the end of the day, I would just tell people to go check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night,” DeSantis said at a news conference Tuesday. “The fact of the matter is, it was the greatest Republican victory in the history of the state of Florida.”

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As the burgeoning rift between former President Donald Trump and his protege Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis spills into the public arena, the Sunshine State governor is bracing for a storm.

Thus far, DeSantis has largely refrained from returning heavy fire as Trump pummels him in his remarks, and at least one source close to Trump believes it could be an effective strategy.

”The best thing for DeSantis is Trump gets in, DeSantis stays out for a while, and Trump runs a race against himself for the next six months,” a source close to Trump told Axios.

Back in the 2016 primary, Trump bulldozed through his GOP rivals by lodging hefty broadsides their way, unnerving some of them and forcing others to try to mirror his unencumbered attack style. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) notably held out for a while, before finally snapping back at Trump during the later stages of the primary cycle.

Seeing DeSantis as a threat, Trump brandished his nickname disparagement ploy against DeSantis, dubbing him “DeSanctimonous” shortly before election day. He later took to social media and rolled out a string of attacks.

Unlike most of the political foes he faced, DeSantis has been largely restrained in the face of Trump’s onslaught.

“At the end of the day, I would just tell people to check out the scoreboard from last Tuesday night,” DeSantis gently quipped Tuesday.

DeSantis supporters have juxtaposed the strong Republican showing in Florida with the weak outing nationally and have pinned the blame on Trump for elevating poor candidates.

Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp are set to testify before the Fulton County grand jury in its investigation into former President Donald Trump’s investigation into the 2020 election results in Georgia.

Hutchinson will testify on Wednesday, CNN reported. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis had already secured Hutchinson’s cooperation last month. Kemp will testify on Tuesday, according to NBC News. While the grand jury is unable to issue indictments, the panel is reportedly planning to write a report that will include recommendations on if anyone should face criminal charges based on its findings.

Willis is reportedly interested in speaking with Kemp about alleged efforts by Trump’s team to pressure the Georgia governor into overturning the 2020 election results. He previously resisted the subpoena asking him to testify before being overruled by a Georgia judge that ultimately allowed Kemp to delay the deposition until after the midterm elections.

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