The tycoon lived the recount in disgust and with the culmination of seeing how Ron DeSantis achieved a victory that makes him a serious rival if he runs for president
Trump organized a party on Tuesday night at his private club in Mar-a-Lago. The idea was to celebrate the red tide, the overwhelming Republican advance that would deliver a “humiliating defeat” to the Democrats. Trump barely spoke during the meeting. He retreated to the chairman’s table and watched the recount on a television set to Fox. No bravado, no resounding “we got it.” He told the summoned journalists that he found the electoral development “quite interesting” and later called the candidates of his party who won seats in the Senate, Congress or state governments to congratulate them.
To all? No. Ron DeSantis, the re-elected Florida governor and Republican election night standout, was missing. The politician who began his career as a representative in Congress in 2012 has emerged stronger after a quick and overwhelming success at the polls. He has not hidden that one of his wishes is to stand in the 2024 presidential elections and there are already many experts who believe that he will take advantage of this opportunity to consolidate his candidacy. In other words, a serious rival has emerged for Trump.
And it’s predictable that if you didn’t like the idea before Tuesday, now it will probably anger you. In fact, on the same election day, the former president assured in an interview with Fox News that if he runs for the presidential elections, DeSantis “would be making a mistake. The base of the voters would not like it », he added with no clairvoyance hours before the victory of the governor of Florida. Trump went so far as to suggest that his presence in a Republican primary could be exploited by someone to spread damaging reports about DeSantis.
The only thing that is clear is that the tycoon does not seem to have met his expectations, something that is evident even in the statement he released last night on the Truth Social network: «In a way, yesterday’s elections were quite disappointing, but from my point of view personal view was a great victory. 219 VICTORIES -so, in capital letters- and 16 defeats in general. Who has ever done it better?
Trump trusted that immense red tide in which he would surf until the next day 15, when he predictably announces that he will run for the presidential elections in 2024. His problem is that many of his sponsors in the recently held elections have fallen short of expectations.
consolation and ridicule
While the former president has drawn consolation from victories like JD Vance’s in Ohio, he suffers the derision of seeing how the decisive Pennsylvania Senate seat has slipped away from his trusted challenger, Mehmet Oz. And that Democrat Josh Shapiro has also won the governorship of the state from Doug Mastriano, a former Army colonel who has vigorously defended the theory that Trump lost the White House in 2020 due to Democratic fraud.
Perhaps now it’s up to Trump to get to next Tuesday by rowing and with the DeSantis hangover against him. A frustration for any pretense of a triumphant return to the political front line. Given his temperamental character, no one knows how the canapés ended up at Mar-a-Lago.
But there is evidence that the finally red swell can cause headaches. One of his former advisers, Sarah Matthews, said yesterday that “last night is the best indicator that Donald Trump should not be the Republican candidate in 2024.” Matthews blamed her for losing “seats the party could have won” by her decision to “push low-quality candidates. Trump is not a winner and the quality of the candidates matters,” she concluded.
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