Question over Donald Trump’s continued influence over the Republican party ahead of the 2024 presidential election have been raised after the GOP’s disappointing midterm performance.
As well as essentially being a referendum on President Joe Biden and the Democratic party, the November 8 elections had a subplot regarding the potential future of the GOP as Trump hoped to fill the House and the Senate with a number of his endorsed candidates, many of whom backed the false claim espoused by Trump that the 2020 election was rigged.
It appears Trump was hoping the apparent Republican midterm “red wave”—which ultimately never came to fruition—would cement his place as the leader of the GOP and pave the way for a return to the White House, with his formal announcement that is running for president again expected in the coming days.
The GOP’s failure to dominate the House, with the Senate also looking like it could eventually remain in control of the Democrats, has already resulted in fingers being pointed toward Trump and the looming shadow he cast for the party’s floundering results.
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