President Donald Trump went scorched earth yesterday to clear the GOP primary field before his big announcement about 2024.
Trump has scheduled an announcement for November 15, which is widely regarded to be confirmation of his presidential campaign.
Some Republican governors performed so well in their respective elections on Tuesday that many are putting them in 2024 contention.
Outgoing Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan, a frequent critic of Trump, told CBSโs Robert Costa the election results make him more likely to seek his partyโs presidential nomination in 2024.
โIโve been talking about a bigger tent,โ Hogan said.
โAnd we need that.
โI think there is a battle for which direction the Republican Party will go.
โMy side of the party had a really good night.
โTrumpโs side did not.โ
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is being discussed more than any other potential challenger for Trump, however.
The corporate media and some Republicans have tried to blame the lack of a red wave on Trump while pushing DeSantisโs name forward.
However, the GOP has likely won the majority in the House and could still take the Senate, while the candidates endorsed by Trump mostly won their races.
Trump issued a scathing response to those pointing the figure at him and suggesting DeSantis should replace him, reminding his critics that taking him on will not be easy:
โNewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didnโt have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican, were just averageโmiddle of the packโincluding COVID, and who has the advantage of SUNSHINE, where people from badly run States up North would go no matter who the Governor was, just like I did!
โRon came to me in desperate shape in 2017โhe was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers.
โRon had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win.
โI didnโt know Adam so I said, โLetโs give it a shot, Ron.โ
โWhen I Endorsed him, it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off.
โYears later, they were the exact words that Adam Putnam used in describing Ronโs Endorsement.
โHe said, โI went from having it made, with no competition, to immediately getting absolutely clobbered after your Endorsement.โ
โI then got Ron by the โStarโ of the Democrat Party, Andrew Gillum (who was later revealed to be a โCrack Headโ), by having two massive Rallies with tens of thousands of people at each one.
โI also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart.
โThe Fake News asks him if heโs going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, โIโm only focused on the Governorโs race, Iโm not looking into the future.โ
โWell, in terms of loyalty and class, thatโs really not the right answer.โ
Trump said of Republican Virginia Governor Glen Younkin, who many think may enter the 2024 race:
โYoung Kin (now thatโs an interesting take. Sounds Chinese, doesnโt it?) in Virginia couldnโt have won without me.
โI Endorsed him, did a very big Trump Rally for him telephonically, got MAGA to Vote for him โ or he couldnโt have come close to winning.
โBut he knows that, and admits it.
โBesides, having a hard time with the Dems in Virginia โ But heโll get it done!
โThis is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldnโt have been nicer or more supportive.
โThe Wall Street Journal loved Low Energy Jeb Bush, and a succession of other people as they rapidly disappeared from sight, finally falling in line with me after I easily knocked them out, one by one.
โWeโre in exactly the same position now.
โThey will keep coming after us, MAGA, but ultimately, we will win,โ Trump said.
โPut America First and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.โ
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