(Washington) Donald Trump, newly launched in his new race for the White House, is not enjoying the momentum he had hoped for. Quite the contrary.
“This is a disastrous start to the campaign,” said Judge Laura Brown, a professor of political science at George Washington University, who believes the former president is going “from scandal to scandal.”
Hoping to ride a conservative “wave” in the midterm elections, he immediately fell on the carpet after the defeat of most of his supporters.
Dumped by conservative heavyweights, the former president found himself at the center of criticism again in late November after dining with rapper Kanye West, accused of anti-Semitism.
“Ridiculous,” “disgusting,” “slanderous”: Republican-elects, long anxious not to incur the wrath of their party leader, now lack words to express their disapproval.
Last weekend, when the former president again denounced “electoral fraud” and called for the abandonment of the constitution in one of his usual diatribes, they were still strangled.
In Georgia on Tuesday, one of its candidates for a seat in the Senate, former American football player Herschel Walker, lost.
“Trump has also seen many of his big donors say publicly that they will not support his candidacy in 2024,” Professor Brown told AFP.
The billionaire, known for his oratorical skills and his rallies in front of waves of red hats, has not held a single campaign event outside his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, since announcing his candidacy.
Political Concerns Septuagint would have done well. He has already been the subject of numerous investigations into the management of his archives and his financial affairs in New York.
Capital Assault
His troubles are probably just beginning.
For more than a year, the embattled Republican Party has been under investigation into election pressure in Georgia, which could lead to an indictment.
A parliamentary committee investigating the president’s responsibility for the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Congress by his supporters is due to submit a major report in the coming weeks.
The panel has already indicated that it will recommend chargesheets without specifying who the cases may target.
The decision on whether to indict the former president will ultimately rest with Justice Secretary Merrick Garland, who in mid-November appointed a special counsel to independently investigate Donald Trump.
Without waiting, justice has already condemned his family business for tax evasion, a blow to the former businessman, although he has not been tried.
Hard core
But be careful not to bury Donald Trump too quickly.
Abandoned by part of the conservative nebula after an attack on the US Congress, the former president managed to regain almost total control in a matter of months.
The tribunal, whose fall has been declared a thousand times, has so far survived all scandals. Accumulating, they no longer had any effect on him.
Donald Trump, who will come to power in November 2016 in an unprecedented political climate, may be tempted to play candidate-insurgent if defections in his ranks continue.
He’s still one of the favorites in the Republican primary, and he doesn’t miss an opportunity to recall him, sharing any poll that goes in this direction.
The former real estate mogul can still count on a loyal base that pledges unfailing loyalty to him and continues to flock to his campaign rallies.
The latter will also lose patience, predicts Laura Brown.
“When he says he’s a victim of a witch hunt, some people in his base rally to him, and many people may get fed up”.
