Donald Trump reportedly planning to announce 2024 presidential run soon

(News.com.au) Donald Trump is reportedly planning an imminent announcement about his next move.

Former US president Donald Trump is reportedly planning an imminent announcement that he’ll run for the White House again in 2024.

There’s nothing stopping him from running again. Indeed Mr Trump has been hinting at his intention to do so for months now.

During an interview with Newsmax in mid-August, for example, the former president was asked directly about 2024.

“Look, I love this country. I hate what’s happening to it. I hate it,” Mr Trump said.

“We’re not going to have a country anymore if it keeps going like this. We’re a laughing stock all over the world, and I think a lot of people are going to be very happy.”

He’d used that phrasing several times before.

“I think people are going to be very, very happy when I make a certain announcement,” he told conservative commentator Candace Owens in May, adding that he looked forward to “doing an announcement at the right time”.

In the wake of the Biden administration’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, Mr Trump appears to think “the right time” is imminent.

Donald and Melania Trump. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP
Donald and Melania Trump. Picture: Brendan Smialowski/AFP

Lauren Windsor, creator of a progressive political web show called The Undercurrent, attended a local Republican Party event in Iowa on Thursday night. Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, a close ally of Mr Trump, was also there.

According to Windsor, Mr Jordan said Mr Trump could announce his 2024 candidacy within days.

“Jim Jordan told me tonight in Iowa that Trump will announce he’s running ‘any day now’,” Windsor reported.

“A big Republican operative in the state later announced to the crowd that Trump will travel here imminently.”

Mr Jordan’s office pushed back on her account.

“Not true. Mr Jordan did not say this,” a spokesperson said.

“Apparently Jim Jordan’s spokesperson has claimed he did not tell me tonight that Trump is imminently announcing his run for 2024,” Windsor replied on Twitter.

“We can’t both be right. See for yourself, video coming tomorrow.”

This morning, she published the promised video footage.

“President Trump, he’s going to run again,” Mr Jordan said in the footage.

“You think so?” he was asked.

“I know so. Yeah, I talked to him yesterday. He’s about ready to announce after all of this craziness in Afghanistan,” the Congressman replied.

The clip did not show Mr Jordan using the words “any day now”.

Meanwhile ABC News reporter Will Steakin, referring to the Republican official’s quote about Mr Trump travelling to Iowa soon, said he’d heard the trip was being planned around one of the former president’s normal rallies, not a 2024 announcement.

If Mr Trump were to announce a run now, it would be an unusual move, as most candidates wait until at least after the midterm elections. Those elections aren’t due until November of next year.

But you can see why the idea might be attractive to him. It would, at the very least, dissuade other potential candidates for the 2024 Republican nomination from entering the field.

A bunch of prominent Republicans have been positioning themselves for a presidential run, including but far from limited to: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, former vice president Mike Pence, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, and a handful of ambitious US senators.

All the polls for the 2024 nomination (yes, those polls are already happening) show Mr Trump dominating the field, should he enter the race.

Mr Trump might also see this as an opportune moment because of Mr Biden’s plummeting approval rating. Just yesterday an NPR/PBS poll showed the President’s approval at 43 per cent, the lowest it has been since he took office, and down 6 per cent since July.

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