# Trump announced he is running in 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 16, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019 "2022-11-16T11:29:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/1 "2022-11-16T11:29:02Z")
Should one of us tell him that this means he concedes that he lost in 2020? mmm ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/2 "2022-11-16T11:31:02Z")
Does this also mean he’s given up the ghost on trying to become the president _this_ year through chicanery like overturning the 2020 election or becoming the Speaker of the House and impeaching (and removing) Biden and Harris by somehow getting 67 votes in a Democratic-led Senate? ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/3 "2022-11-16T12:59:35Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Should one of us tell him that this means he concedes that he lost in 2020? Doesn’t follow, actually. He didn’t lose, Biden is illegitimately in office, but due to the Deep State he needs to run and get elected (for the third time!) to Make America Great Again. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/4 "2022-11-16T13:05:20Z")
He just did his party a big disservice. Were he actually concerned with anyone or anything other than himself, he would realize that his decision is going to create severe divisiveness in his party. In fact, it could be outright political warfare that will only tarnish the image of the Republican party even more. This will, of course, help the Democratic party. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/5 "2022-11-16T13:13:59Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > He just did his party a big disservice. Were he actually concerned with anyone or anything other than himself, he would realize that his decision is going to create severe divisiveness in his party. His party is the party of Trump. There is a large overlap with the Republican Party, but he doesn’t give a shit about how the GOP does, except as to how it effects him. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/6 "2022-11-16T13:18:27Z")
A true Malignant Narcissist. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/7 "2022-11-16T13:33:41Z")
I look forward to his annihilation in the primary. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/8 "2022-11-16T13:36:51Z")
Okay, but we were all saying that in 2015. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/9 "2022-11-16T13:45:19Z")
Yep. Once he gets his patented insult comedy routine honed, he’ll wipe the floor of his GOP primary opponents. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/10 "2022-11-16T13:54:37Z")
I’m trying to get my head around what this will mean - for both R AND D candidates. How will his historical lackeys be able to switch their allegiance? But if they don’t and he loses…? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/11 "2022-11-16T13:56:45Z")
For better or worse, Trump _will_ be the GOP nominee for 2024. They have only themselves to blame when they struck that Faustian bargain in 2016. I certainly wouldn’t take his defeat in the general election for granted, but we’ve beat him before and can do it again. 2024 is going to be a weird election to be sure. One of the worst Senate maps you’ve ever seen for democrats, high likelihood we’ll be deep in the throes of a recession, and of course rampant right wing extremism follows in the wake of TFG wherever he goes. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/12 "2022-11-16T14:00:33Z")
Pre-existing thread is here: > [@The Donald Trump 2024 Campaign Thread (Primary Edition)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-donald-trump-2024-campaign-thread-primary-edition/974970): > > All signs and reports point to Trump announcing his 2024 candidacy tonight. This is the thread to see how a man who lost 6 of 7 elections\* fares this time around. Right now… grimacing When the sex trafficking pedophile doesn’t want to be seen at your little get together… \*Won: 2016 electoral college Lost: 2016, 2020 popular vote, 2020 EC, 2018 House, 2020 Senate, 2022 Red Wave (or so Republicans are telling us). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-announced-he-is-running-in-2024/975019/13 "2022-11-16T14:00:37Z")