Donald Trump may not be the only one with a view to 2024.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is due to travel to Iowa next week to speak on behalf of the Conservatives.
The trip through Pompeo, the former Kansas congressman who served as CIA director in the Trump administration before becoming America’s top diplomat, will be first visited by a potential 2024 GOP White House, hopefully to one of the early voting countries in the United States. presidential nomination calendar.
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Pompeo, who was not ashamed during recent Fox News interviews about the teasing of his possible national aspirations, apparently set fire to a bit more on Friday, tweeting: “1,327 days.”
Pompeo’s trip concludes a tour of the Westside Conservative Club in Urbandale on Friday morning.
Sens Rick Scott of Florida and Tim Scott of South Carolina, who may also have national aspirations, are going to Iowa next month to headline the GOP events.
Rick Scott, who is traveling to Hawkeye State in his role as chairman of the National Republican Senate Committee – which is the Republican Senate’s re-election arm – will be in Cedar Rapids on April 1 for an event hosted by the Iowa GOP be arranged. Tim Scott will speak at another IOP GOP meeting in Davenport on April 15.
While the conventional wisdom is that Trump’s flirtations with another White House in 2024 could freeze the field a bit, it seems that his figurative presence does not prevent other potential candidates from taking early steps before the nomination.
Eight years ago, when the GOP was in a similar situation to the party that was out of power in the White House, there were 42 visits by potential 2016 Republican rivals to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – the first three states to contest held in the IDP nomination calendar. But only four of these trips took place during the first four months of 2013.
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“I have probably been more interested in our regional events than I have been in the previous two presidential cycles of being president,” said Jeff Kaufmann, a longtime chairman of the GOP.
“I would say that there is a lot more interest here than meets the eye,” Kaufmann said, teasing that there will be many more visits by potential 2024 candidates this year. “I’m not playing with you. Stay tuned.”
An invitation from the Iowa Republican Party for an event with sens. Tim Scott and Joni Ernst in Davenport, Iowa, on April 15, 2021
Steve Stepanek, chairman of the Republican State Committee of New Hampshire, Kaufmann’s counterpart, Granite State, told Fox News that “at this point, people are putting out feelers.”
A week after being in Iowa, Pompeo will record a virtual fundraiser for the GOP in New Hampshire. And Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, another politician on the long list of potential Republican 2024 hopefuls, spoke at a state party’s remote winter meeting last month.
Stepanek points to the calendar – and to the coronavirus pandemic – for the lack of personal early state visits so far.
“It’s wicked early on and I think a lot of people are being stopped because of the COVID exclusion,” Stepanek told Fox News.
Asked if Trump’s potential 2024 presidential bid has also frozen early state visits so far by other hopefuls in the White House, he says it’s too early to tell. “If that’s the case within a year, I would say it’s Trump,” added Stepanek, who chaired Trump’s 2016 campaign in New Hampshire.
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During a speech last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Trump predicted that a Republican president would make a triumphant return to the White House in 2024. And to tease a potential run, he asks, “I wonder who it will be?”
Later in his speech, Trump once again falsely claimed to have won the November presidential election last year and caused an explosion of applause and cheers among the crowd in Orlando, Florida, when he said about the Democrats: “who knows .. “I can even decide to hit them for the third time.”
Last week, in an interview on Fox News Primetime, the former president once again teased a potential 2024 campaign, hinting that ‘we will make a decision after’ the midterm elections.
Former President Donald Trump Speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Sunday, February 28, 2021, in Orlando, Florida (AP Photo / John Raoux)
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Trump remains the dominant force in the GOP and the most popular figure among Republican voters. The early data clearly shows that if the nomination were held today, the former president would be the overwhelming favorite.
“I think the elephant in the room is, of course, Donald Trump,” GOP veteran Neil Newhouse recently told Fox News. “If the election is held today and if he wants the nomination, he will be the best favorite.”
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Republican strategist and veteran of GOP president Alex Conant told Fox News that ‘no one wants to be the first candidate to challenge Trump in 2024. If it really was an open race, you would see that many potential candidates would make aggressive early moves, going to Iowa, New Hampshire. ‘
“Potential 2024 candidates do not want to talk about Donald Trump. They want to talk about themselves,” he pointed out. ‘But as long as he makes noises about running again, the race will be all about him. And these candidates will be less likely to do the early state trips, because it will all be in the shadow of whether Trump wants to run again. “
Longtime GOP consultant David Carney agreed that the president’s attempt to return to the White House is a very different scenario than the open fields for the GOP presidential nominations in 2008, 2012 and 2016 respectively. wash.
But Carney, a veteran of Republican presidential campaigns for three decades, said: “I do not think any serious candidate will be scared because it is four years. Nobody knows what is really going to happen to the president. I do not see it currently has a lot of influence. ‘
While the early strike to date has been limited, there is plenty of action behind the scenes.
“Many potential 2024 candidates are making friends in the ultra-activist category. They’re not making headlines, they’re not making headlines, they’re just talking on the phone and communicating, getting things right,” said New Hampshire Institute of Neil Levesque, executive director of politics, said. “There are not many activities on the ground that voters can touch.”
The institute’s ‘Politics and Eggs’ series has long been a must for hopeful hope at the White House in New Hampshire, and Levesque said he’s getting questions about the platforms we have. amusing. ‘
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“I would expect after COVID that once we can do personal opportunities, things will really start to heat up,” he added.
And Kaufmann’s potential for potential 2024 IDP candidates? “Come to Iowa, come often, and through golly I will find a crowd to talk to.”