President Trump
Donald Trump Giuliani used preliminary voting to vote in the 2020 election, the same method he dismissed in the fight to overturn the results. Trump recently received the lowest job approval as DC president Bill Sammon’s managing editor. apparently has the potential to start driving a new political party as he prepares to leave the White House amid internal strife within the Republican Party.
The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that Trump had discussed the matter with associates over the past week and suggested that he call it the ‘Patriot Party’.
According to the Journal, it is unclear how serious the outgoing president is of starting a new party. The statement noted that Trump’s wide support base was not strongly involved with the Republican Party before Trump became the party’s presidential candidate in 2016.
Speculation has grown as to whether Trump will run for the presidency again in 2024. If he does, it could effectively exclude other viable Republican candidates from the presidency. Traditionally, third parties could not gain enough momentum to challenge the Democratic and Republican parties.
This effort is likely to be strongly opposed by the Republican leadership, as it will be seen as Trump stepping down support for other Republican candidates.
Since losing the presidential election, Trump’s future after the White House has been called into question. In November, Axios reported that Trump’s allies wanted to buy the conservative news network Newsmax to compete with Fox News. However, Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy denied that such discussions took place.
Trump’s future efforts in DC are likely to face challenges. His Senate prosecution hearing will take place after he leaves office, and the outgoing Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnell What would MLK say about Trump and the Republican Party? Biden’s minimum wage push faces upward battle with GOP GOP senators clash with Trump’s purge of party MORE (R-Ky.) Has not yet decided whether he will vote to convict Trump. McConnell blamed Trump on Tuesday for provoking the violent crowd that broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Democratic lawmakers have demanded that Trump no longer run for federal office in the future, and on Tuesday, Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.) Introduced legislation to ban Trump from entering the US Capitol after his presidency ended on Wednesday.