Race for presidential anointing from Republicans “He could be a lot more competitive than many think,” Ben Domenez, Spectator editor-in-chief and regular Fox News commentator, writes on the Spectator website.

76 year old Donald Trump officially announced, the first among contenders for the title, that he is running for president in view of elections 2024.

Judging by the “climate” of the media across the Atlantic, the process of electing the Republican presidential candidate is presented as a race between two candidates: the former president Donald Trump on the one hand, who began his election campaign with Floridaand the 44-year-old governor of Florida Ron De Sandys on the other hand, who are still holding their cards down.

Unlike Trump, De Sandys has yet to announce a possible flight. Some of the GOP’s biggest donors (billionaire Ken Griffinmedia tycoon Rupert Murdochbusinessman Andy Sabin from New York, owner of the Miami Dolphins Stephen Ross etc.), of course, rushed to support him, thus setting the stage for what might follow.

What will De Sandys do?

However, on the contrary,some suggest that de Sandys is not going to challenge TrumpTrump himself is making it clear that he does not want to have de Sandys as a non-presidential candidate against him. He proved it when he warned the 44-year-old Florida governor a few days ago not to run for president.

The landscape that has developed within the Republican Party since the August 8 midterm elections^her November, now does”inevitableDe Sandy is running for president, writes Dan Jacques in the Washington Post.

However, citing sources close to the Florida governor, editors Gary Fineout and Matt Dixon of American Politico say the 44-year-old has not yet made a final decision about his possible presidential candidacy. They also note that De Sandys intends to spend the next few months away from his shadow. White Housefocusing on their state affairs Florida whose governor was re-elected a few weeks ago with a nearly 60% percentage. According to this report, De Sandy’s entourage believes that they are currently on his side and therefore have no reason to take action that could be considered hasty or frivolous two years before 2024 presidential election.

On the other hand, CNBC’s Brian Schwartz notes that the environment around De Sandys has already begun to “set up the kind of fundraising groups and infrastructure that will be needed to explore the prospect of a presidential race.”

In any case, now, having regained – albeit a slight – majority in House of RepresentativesRepublicans are now looking closely at the White House for a candidate who could secure their return to the federal administration in 2024.

Other candidates

Ben Domenetz of the Spectator, for his part, sees other potential candidates besides Trump and De Sandys.

63 year old Mike Pence, a former Vice President under Trump, is a politician who is eligible for the nomination. In the eyes of the general electorate, Pence appeared to be “gaining points” when he distanced himself from the Donald Trump camp following the violent incidents on Capitol Hill in January 2021 and then acknowledged Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory, much to the dismay of voters. all those Republicans who argued otherwise. However, for the same reason, Pence fell out of favor with the Republican Party. Indicates that if we accept what Republican analysts are reporting, he still hasn’t recovered.

Its 56 year old governor Virginia, Glen Youngin, also stands out as one of the possible contenders for the presidency. Trump recently publicly ridiculed him for his last name, which he claimed “sounds like Chinese” (Yang-qin), thus justifying Paul Krugman, who wrote a few days ago in the New York Times, that Trump tends to act like 14 year old teenager. . For his supporters, however, Glenn Yangin, 56, is a politician less “toxic” and decidedly less divisive than Trump, who managed to win in a “traditionally Democratic” state like Virginia and could therefore come back. The Republican Party, and with it the central political scene of the country, on the trajectory of “normality”.

Other Republican names that have been heard as possible presidential candidates include: Tom Cottonher Nikki Haley (Former US Ambassador to the UN) Ted Cruzfrom Chris Christyfrom Tim Scotther Christy County And her Tulsi Gabbardalthough, as noted, the aforementioned might have ended up better “snapping” into the vice presidency next to any presidential candidate.

Mike Pompeo as an outsider – surprise

However, according to Spectator Editor-in-Chief Ben Domenez, the outsider who could possibly run for the Republican presidential nomination en route to the 2024 election is another politician we know of: the 58-year-old Mike Pompeo who, as Trump’s Foreign Secretary during the 2018-2021 period, to our knowledge, played a leading role in promoting Strategic dialogue with Greece and also in the signature of the updated Greek-American Agreement on Mutual Defense Cooperation (MDCA).

The personal path of Pompeo, who successfully passed through different industries (as a soldier, lawyer, businessman) before his election to Congress in Kansas in 2010, and then found himself at the helm CIA (2017 – 2018) and from there to State Department, can really impress those Republican voters who judge candidates by seniority. But how many are there?

His presence on the foreign policy front can also play a positive role for him, since analysts refer to him as a “hawk”, but from a more “refined” or “sophisticated” one.

However, to succeed in his presidential bid, Pompeo will have to convince mainly on the domestic political front. There, according to some, he could even arrange a surprise.

However, any surprise has to happen depending on a number of factors.

So far, the only one who has spoken “presidential” but hasn’t made an impression is Trump himself. It remains to talk to the rest …