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As we count down to Election Day, here’s what the final stretch of the midterms means for 2024 election. Politics Managing Editor Caren Bohan writes:
Former President Donald Trump has been criss-crossing the country ahead of the Nov. 8 midterms to rally support for GOP allies such as Senate candidate J.D. Vance in Ohio and Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania.
He’s also reminding his supporters that he has no intention of relinquishing the political spotlight to potential 2024 rivals such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence – two other prominent Republicans who have been active on the campaign trail.
As USA TODAY National Political Reporter David Jackson writes, Trump routinely hints to his supporters that he’s on the verge of launching another presidential run.
“I will probably have to do it again,” Trump told supporters during a recent rally in Texas.
Notably, many of the states that are part of the former president’s final 2022 campaign swing are ones that would be pivotal in a 2024 run, including Iowa, Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
“The people we’ve talked to are convinced Trump is going to run and is probably going to announce sometime in November,” Jackson tells the OnPolitics newsletter.
“But Trump is mercurial so we need to wait until he makes it official,” said Jackson, a veteran White House and campaign reporter who has covered Trump since he announced his first presidential bid in 2015.
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What’s next: Trump due to respond to Jan. 6 committee. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol formally subpoenaed Donald Trump during their last meeting on Oct. 21.
The former president, who has denounced the investigation as political, faces deadlines Friday to produce documents and until Nov. 14 to testify. He has filed lawsuits challenging other subpoenas, but hasn’t said yet whether he will fight this one.