before 8 august United States of America There were those who saw or wanted to see a certain wear. flag weight donald trump inside Republican Party. The devastating public hearings of the special congressional committee investigating the attack on the Capitol had diminished its popularity. According to some polls and analyzes by various observers and strategists, some conservative voters were eager for change.
Some candidates supported by the former president in the primary elections for the general elections on 8 November were also defeated. None of these defeats were more important than him. GeorgiaA state that will be vital in determining control of the Senate and is at the center of Trump’s generalization effort.”big lie“About non-existent electoral corruption that could lead to potential and dangerous changes in election authorities in 2020.
this erosionIf there was a mirage. After the FBI searched his home in Mar-a-Lago last Monday, Trump said: reaffirmed and even strengthened their dominance. The Great Old Party. And as Sean Noble, a Republican political adviser from Arizona, a state in which candidates backed by the former president have won significant victories, “ uncharted territory with a former president having that level of control over the party.
Political and electoral support
The functioning of the Ministry of Justice has been judicially authorized and, as shown, legal basis It has served to reinstate Trump, surrounded by other civil, criminal and political investigations, with indications of various crimes related to the irregular use of classified documents. It has become a useful and sought after tool for Donation. And despite some cracks, light and in no case did Trump achieve success in the highest echelons of the party. almost complete closure of ranks around your figure and message, so marked personal interests as usual but more if possible incendiary.
This closing of ranks is palpable among his most loyal constituencies. A poll among conservatives after politically challenging records put the number of primary voters who said they would support Trump in the face of a potential presidential nomination in 2024 to 57 percent, up four percentage points from July. And in an informal poll in CPAC’s conservative legislature to see what candidate they want in 2024, days before the operation in Mar-a-Lago, which 99% of respondents approve of, Trump said: 69% of the votes10 points more than the February meeting. Ron DeSantisFlorida’s governor, who currently casts the most shadows on himself as a potential contender for the White House, was left with 24 percent. “Trump more popular than ever“, assured the person responsible for the vote.
Closing the ranks is also political. And certainly DeSantis was one of Trump’s potential opponents who has spoken out against the FBI record before and more strongly, something nearly certain other candidates for the White House have done from Senator as well. Ted Cruz and former Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo to former Vice President Mike Pence.
DeSantis launched some of the same messages that came out of Trump’s own word of mouth or by writing on the Truth social network, “political witch hunt“And it affects you apocalyptic and anti-government vision from the USA. Both they and the conservative media now repeat country definitions as “”.banana republic“and is asked to oppose the “regime.” The FBI and the Justice Department have been demonized. Nazi Germany or with GestapoInvestigations are threatened, and in the most extreme cases the most radical voices demand that police funding be cut off.
In addition, the record is associated with other political elements that Republicans plan to campaign for in major state elections, as well as legislative elections in which the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate are renewed. “If they go for Trump, they go for you‘, said Pompeo recently, for example.
He noted the reinforcement by the 87,000 Treasury investigators approved in Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, a law that encompasses fiscal, health and climate change measures that have resulted in a series of legislative victories, as do many other Republicans. Progressive popular mobilization against the Supreme Court’s decision to repeal the constitutional protection of the right to abortion improved Democrats’ hopes of maintaining control, at least in the upper house.
Candidacy?
One of the objections that some Republicans show is that Trump uses his record to advertise it. presidential candidacy Soon, as some close advisers want. Because no one doubts that the 76-year-old Trump will run (“If there was a 99% chance it would come up, now it’s 100%“said political a source close to the ex-president’s operation). But there are those who fear that this announcement will have a negative impact in November, turning the election into a referendum for himself once again, and diverting the limelight that many Republicans want to disappoint with the high elections. inflation or the price of gasoline.
Violence
Trump, who now dominates the Republican Party, if possible, more explosive when he’s running for the first time or running for president, when the messages come racists they were adding incitement to violenceculminated in the attack on the Capitol. Now, under the shadow of investigations, unleashed to challenge norms and institutionsnor anything to calm the waters the most radical voices They are shaking dangerously after check in. “The country is in a very dangerous situation, there is a great anger against all scams like I’ve never seen before,” he told FoxNews on Monday.
Friday Department of Homeland Security a distributed memorandum The agency and the FBI have had a meeting since last Monday. growing threats against federal charges and facilities “especially online and across multiple platforms” and ” civil war and armed rebellion“.
Last week, a gunman who died in a shootout with police raided an FBI office. Early Sunday morning, another gunman committed suicide after crashing his car into a barricade near the Capitol and firing several shots into the air.