What Will Trump Say on Tuesday?

by Sharon Rondeau

(Nov. 14, 2022) — In his second comment of the day, 45th President of the United States Donald J. Trump appeared to offer a glimpse into his thoughts on the public statement he plans to make Tuesday.

“Hopefully, tomorrow will turn out to be one of the most important days in the history of our Country!” he posted on his social-media platform, TruthSocial, on Monday afternoon.

Trump is widely expected to announce he will seek the presidency in 2024 as the Republican nominee. Following last week’s midterm elections, the results of which are unsettled as of this writing, a number of Republicans have voiced opposition and a desire to see someone else “lead” the party going forward, including Virginia’s lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears.

At an Ohio rally on November 7, Trump said he would be making “a very big announcement,” with some reports speculating it would be that evening. Trump later clarified that he planned to make the announcement on November 15.

While Republicans are expected to gain a majority in the House of Representatives, they made no gains in the Senate, with Democrats declaring over the weekend their 50-seat position as the majority given that the Democrat vice president, Kamala Harris, serves as the chamber’s tie-breaker. Because the Senate comprises 100 members, however, there is a power-sharing agreement in place between the two leaders: Democrat Chuck Schumer, who just won re-election, and Mitch McConnell.

Two Senate candidates Trump endorsed during the campaign, Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and Blake Masters,in Arizona, lost to their Democrat opponents, and in Michigan, gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon reportedly lost to Democrat incumbent Gretchen Whitmer.

Florida increased its Republican U.S. House delegation by two seats, and in the state of New York, four Republicans will serve in the 118th Congress, taking seats previously occupied by Democrats.

In statewide elections, however, New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose campaign promise during her first bid was to prosecute Trump, won re-election, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin, who Trump endorsed, lost to incumbent Kathy Hochul.

On Sunday Trump opined that the outcome of the 2022 midterm elections is “Mitch McConnell’s fault. Spending money to defeat great Republican candidates instead of backing Blake Masters and others was a big mistake. Giving 4 Trillion Dollars to the Radical Left for the Green New Deal, not Infrastructure, was an even bigger mistake. He blew the Midterms, and everyone despises him and his otherwise lovely wife, Coco Chow!”

Since the 2020 election, which Trump has consistently claimed was “stolen” from him by a variety of factors, Trump has viewed now-Senate Minority Leader McConnell as a political adversary given that McConnell did not attempt to investigate Trump’s and others’ claims of massive fraud generated by millions of mail-in ballots, outside drop boxes not utilized previously, an indirect but substantial infusion of privately-donated money into major election centers such as Milwaukee, Philadelphia and other large cities, the reported barring of election observers in some locales, and eyewitnesses’ testimony to state legislative committees in the election’s aftermath.

In a statement from the well of the Senate following that body’s acquittal of Trump in his second impeachment, though he himself voted not to convict, McConnell found Trump “practically and morally responsible” for the incursion at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

While Trump was in office, he and McConnell worked closely together to confirm more than 200 federal judicial nominees.

Earlier on Monday, Trump wrote about Arizona’s protracted vote-counting process, “I assume everyone is watching Arizona as the great Kari Lake’s easy election win is slowly, yet systematically, being drained away from her, and from the American people. This is a very sad thing to watch. Mail in Ballots, long election counts, many day elections, machines that very few people understand, massive counting centers, and more, are an American disaster. Our elections have become an unreliable joke, and the whole world is watching!”

Update, 6:10 p.m. EST: RSBN has reported Trump will make his announcement at 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, with the outlet’s coverage of the event commencing at 7:30 p.m.