Doubt in Republicans; Can Trump win the 2024 election?
The “Hale” news website reported that they are not sure that Trump can succeed in the 2024 election due to the damage done to his image following the revelations of the congressional investigation committee about the January 6th attack.
According to the report of the “Hill” news website, damaging revelations in the hearings of the investigative committee about the January 6, 2021 attack by Trump supporters on the US Congress, strengthen doubts among the Republicans in the Senate about whether Donald Trump can be the party’s nominee this year. 2024 or even run for the second term in the White House.
According to this media affiliated with the US Congress, one of the Republican senators, who asked not to be named in order to comment on Trump, said that the sequence of embarrassing details about Trump’s behavior in the weeks before January 6, 2021 and during the attack on the Congress building greatly affected his political power. It will hurt before the 2024 elections. “I don’t think he’s going to run again,” the senator said, referring to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony that Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent when he refused to take him to the Capitol that day. This is a good thing, because of all the things that have happened.
According to media reports, Hutchinson, then assistant to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is now cooperating with the Justice Department’s investigation into the January 6 deadly attack.
A second Republican senator, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said the overwhelming majority of Republican senators do not want Trump to be the party’s presidential nominee again. This lawmaker explained: I can count on one hand the number of Republican senators who want Donald Trump to be our nominee. The cumulative effect of the January 6 hearings will affect Trump’s performance in 2024.
Trump’s hard way forward in intra-party elections
According to The Hill, Senate Republican leaders are publicly predicting that Trump will face a tough race in the 2024 GOP primaries. They believe Trump’s hold on the party is waning amid polls showing a growing interest in Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
