How Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign Bounced Back

Donald Trump suffered through electoral setbacks, media disasters, and spent the last months of 2022 in a funk. Many of his high-profile endorsements during the midterm elections fell on deaf ears. His attacks against the popular GOP governors in Florida and Georgia, Ohio, Ohio, and Georgia did very little to damage their reputations. His 2024 campaign launch in a snooze was his. Trump was on the political fringe after his scandalous and unjustifiable Mar-a-Lago dinner with prominent anti-Semites. Trump seemed to be disappearing from the national conversation by the end of 2017. His chances of winning Republican Nomination seemed to have dwindled.

These are becoming more realistic. According to polls, Trump is still the most popular Republican. In head-to-head matches, he’s even drawn with President Biden. He successfully lobbied for Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Republican from California) to be elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. His loyalists on House Judiciary and Oversight committees, as well as the Weaponization of Federal Government Committees, will ensure his interests are further advanced. His connection to the Republican base is strong as he plans his return to Facebook, Instagram and possibly Twitter.

It is important to note that Trump’s Republican rivals in both Democratic and Republican party are repeating the mistakes made during the 2016 campaign. While the Democrats believe that Trump cannot become president, Republicans think he will disappear from the scene. It was possible for Trump to win the GOP nomination the third time in a row, and to also pull another inside straight in Electoral College to return to the White House. Trump has been claiming for decades that the political elite is corrupt, insular, incompetent and that Republican leaders lack guts. Washington is working hard to prove Trump wrong.

Trump’s recovery began January 9, when it was reported that classified documents were found at a D.C. Office months before Trump used them from 2017 to 2019. Biden, who called Trump irresponsible last summer when the FBI found classified material at Mar-a-Lago, was exposed to be a hypocrite. Merrick Garland, Attorney General of Maryland, felt pressured to appoint Biden as a special prosecutor. He had already appointed one for Trump’s investigation into mishandling classified information.

Garland accepted the offer on January 12, and asked Robert Hur, U.S. attorney, to head the investigation. Biden’s Wilmington residence was searched by the FBI on January 20.