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| This made a lot more sense a couple of weeks ago... |
No doubt Trump will still have an enthusiastic following. I suspect that most Republicans would still vote for Trump is he won the nomination. That being said, many within the Party are blaming Trump for the midterm disappointment and for good reason. Most of his "hand picked" candidate underperformed in many winnable races.
It's not hard to see that if you replaced Herschel Walker with David Perdue, Blake Masters with AG Mark Brnovich, Laxalt with a real politician in Nevada, and Dr Oz with pretty much any Republican who lived in Pennsylvania at the time and you are likely looking at a GOP Senate. Not to mention Kari Lake and other Trump recruits who lost winnable races in Governorships and Congress seats.
Some are suggesting that Trump is announcing a run to stave off a DOJ indictment over the Presidential records dispute. But most legal observers do not believe that his standing as a GOP candidate will alter how the Biden regime is planning to use the power of law enforcement to pick off his main rival. They have a case (as they had a case against Hillary) and they will probably move forward because they are hacks first and honest prosecutors second.
