‘I don’t think anyone knows,’ someone close to Donald Trump told me at the end of last week. ‘My guess is he does but that’s just a guess.’
My question, of course, was ‘Is Donald Trump still going to announce?’ — despite the mid-term disappointments for his movement and the increasing certainty among Republican analysts that the party cannot win with him as its public face?
He’s expected to announce at 9 pm Eastern Standard Time – 2 am tomorrow, BST – after he declared yesterday on his Truth Social media platform that ‘Hopefully, tomorrow will turn out to be one of the most important days in the history of our country!’
Nobody really knows exactly what is going on in that big orange head
That ‘hopefully’ suggests an unusual amount of doubt in Trump’s brain. And it is telling that key Trump people are now sounding more ambiguous about 2024 than they did just a week ago.
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