Former president Donald Trump reportedly plans to declare his intention to run for the United States presidency in 2024. He plans to do so Tuesday at his resort Mar-a-Largo in Florida.
That’s bad news for Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Georgia, according to what GOP sources told The Hill.
“No, it doesn’t help,” one “GOP strategist with Trump World ties” told the outlet. “The 2022 midterms are not over and anything that takes away the ability to fundraise, to get the message out there, to keep the media and the journalists focused on this race, is bad for the Republican Party as a whole.”
Jason Miller, a top Trump advisor, said last week that the former president should pause his planned announcement. The “priorities A, B and C need to be about Herschel right now,” Miller said, according to The Hill.
Democrats have already won control of the Senate in 2023, though the House of Representatives remains in the air.
Walker faces Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock in one of the nation’s most bruising campaign cycles. Both sides spent over $241 million on the race. Multiple abortion scandals rocked Walker’s pro-life campaign, while Trump and Barack Obama campaigned for their party’s respective candidates.
Georgia voters head to the polls on Dec. 6th for the head-to-head election.
[The Hill]
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