45th President Donald Trump seemed to suggest in his strongest terms yet that he will run for the White House for the third time in a speech on Monday night, promising supporters he will make a “very big announcement” on November 15.
“Not to detract from tomorrow’s very important – even critical – election,” Trump told the crowd at the Ohio rally he held alongside J.D. Vance, his endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate, “I’m going to be making a very big announcement on Tuesday, November 15, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.”
Prior to the event, multiple sources reported that Trump was considering formally announcing his 2024 presidential run alongside Vance on stage.
Some Republicans worried that Trump announcing the night before the midterms may place a handful of competitive races in jeopardy, though others suspected it may energize the electorate and increase voter turnout.
Just a few days prior, Breitbart News reports Trump made a more vague promise to voters in Iowa.
“And now in order to make our country successful, and safe and glorious, I will very very very probably do it again,” Trump told a Sioux City crowd of his supporters. “Okay? Very very very probably.” He joked, “Very very very probably.”
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Trump continues to outperform virtually every possible Republican challenger when polled about a battle for the Republican nomination, including popular Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who regularly polls most competitively.
DeSantis, possibly identified as the only possible threat from the Republican side to Trump’s reelection, was labeled Ron “DeSanctimonious” by Trump at a recent rally, though in an apparent olive branch he urged Floridians to vote for him soon after.
Though convinced that his voters will play a pivotal role in today’s election, Trump has repeatedly expressed concern about the possibility of voter fraud, which he and the majority of Republicans maintain robbed him of the White House in 2020.
