Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives on stage to speak during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on Nov. 15, 2022, in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump announced that he was seeking another term in office and officially launched his 2024 presidential campaign. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/TNS)
Donald Trump is rightfully being blamed as a major factor in the Republican’s flop in the midterm elections. Trump backed several totally unqualified and inept candidates solely because they supported his delusional stolen election fantasy. Voters were not fooled and all of these losers were defeated allowing the Democrats to retain the Senate and narrowly lose control of the House in what should have been strong winning margins for the Republicans in both. His “Big Announcement” that he is running for reelection didn’t even make the front page of this paper and many in the Republican Party are unhappy that he has decided to run again. Hopefully, Trump will either be convicted of a felony before the 2024 election, and therefore ineligible, or will fail to be the Republican nominee. If the Republican Party hopes to regain the White House they have to dump Trump and nominate a candidate with some level of honesty and civility. Democracy barely survived four years of Trump. It may not survive another four.
Dennis Wright
Beaumont
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