Donald Trump is expected to announce his candidacy for the US presidency in 2024
His advisors speak of an upcoming announcement in Mar-a-Lago/Florida

Even though several of his handpicked candidates lost in last week's US midterm elections and a growing number of Republicans are calling for the former president to step down, Donald Trump is generally expected to announce his third run for the White House on Tuesday night.
At Mar-a-Lago, his property in Palm Beach, Florida, which Trump once referred to as his "winter White House," he is expected to deliver what his advisors have dubbed a "special announcement."
For more than a year, he has made no secret of his desire to run for president again in 2024, repeating his claims that the 2020 election was "rigged" and "stolen" from him - referring to the allegations that the documentary "2000" Mules, among others, addressed.
In part at the insistence of advisors and national Republicans who did not want him to overshadow last week's midterm elections, the former president has delayed officially launching a campaign. The day before the election, on November 7, however, Trump declared he would make a "very major statement" on November 15.
Trump, however, came under renewed pressure to postpone his announcement following the midterm elections, when Republicans underperformed expectations and many of his high-profile endorsements, such as Senate hopefuls Mehmet Oz, Blake Masters, and Adam Laxalt, failed to win their contests.
Others, including Florida's Republican governor Ron DeSantis, who was re-elected last week by a margin of 19 points, made both private and public appeals for the former president to leave the political scene entirely and allow a new generation of Republicans to run for their party's nomination in 2024.
According to a YouGov poll released on Sunday, 42% of Americans who identify as Republicans or lean Republican indicated they would like to see DeSantis as their party's nominee in 2024, as opposed to 35% who said they would prefer Trump.
DeSantis is dominating the field in both early states that are critical to gaining the party's presidential nominee, according to a letter published on Monday by the Club for Growth, a conservative low-tax organization that originally endorsed Trump but has recently distanced itself from him.
According to the report, DeSantis defeated Trump by a margin of 48 to 37 percent among voters in Iowa, and by a 52 to 37 percent margin in New Hampshire.
Although DeSantis has not yet said if he will run for president, the crowd at his victory celebration last week seemed to be encouraging him to do so by yelling, "Two more years!”
Trump hasn't shown any signs of caving in, attacking DeSantis, Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, and Rupert Murdoch, whose publications, most notably The New York Post, have lent their support to a potential DeSantis candidacy, in public remarks and posts on his social media platform Truth Social.
Objectors have questioned if Trump may reverse direction and postpone his announcement or decide not to run for office as he has previously done at rallies. The former president's advisor Jason Miller, though, insisted he would go through with it when he made an appearance on Steve Bannon's podcast on Friday.
President Trump will declare his candidacy for president on Tuesday, according to Miller, and it will be a very formal and polished announcement.
The former president reportedly told him, "Of course I'm running," he continued. I'm going to do this because I want everybody to know how fired up I am about getting the nation back on track.
It is yet unknown how many Republicans would oppose Trump for the presidential nomination of their party. Along with DeSantis, Larry Hogan, the centrist outgoing governor of Maryland, and Mike Pence, his vice president, have also expressed interest in running. Former Carlyle executive and recently-elected Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin is also said to be considering a run.
On the opposing side of the political spectrum, Joe Biden hasn't formally declared that he'll seek re-election in 2024. But following Democrats' better than anticipated performance in the midterm elections, he gave the clearest indication yet that he intends to run for reelection, declaring: "Our intention is to run again."
Trump is currently dealing with a number of legal issues, including an investigation into his involvement in the attack on the US Capitol by a congressional committee that was established on January 6 and efforts to have the 2020 election results thrown out.
The US Supreme Court gave the committee permission to access Kelli Ward's phone records on Monday. Ward is the head of the Republican party in Arizona, one of the states where Trump sought to have the election results overturned.





