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The 2024 presidential race could hinge on election results in just four key swing states: Wisconsin, Nevada, Georgia and Arizona — the same four states whose midterm Senate races werethe final results to be called earlier this month.
As CNN reports, “the list of genuinely competitive presidential states may be shrinking.” Those four states, however, remain competitive and are divided almost evenly in terms of Republicans and Democrats — proving that whichever way they fall could determine leadership for the entire country.
In Texas, Democrats hadhoped to flip the state blue— a dream that failed in both 2020 and 2022, a signifier that the state is likely to remain a Republican stronghold for the foreseeable future.
Since then, Democrats have gained momentum in some areas, and experts say they could gain further support still, depending on who Republicans nominate as their 2024 candidate.
Already, former PresidentDonald Trumphasannounced his 2024 campaign, a run that will come amidinvestigations into his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021— when a mob of riotersstormed the U.S. Capitolon his behalf in an attempt to stopJoe Biden’s election victory from being certified — and hishandling of classified documentsafter leaving office.
The former president has stayed tapped into politics since leaving office, hitting the midterm campaign trail alongside severalcontroversial Republican candidatesthis year.
But many of the candidates Trump endorsed lost their races, leading some experts to wonder whether his popularity was slipping, even among members of his own party.
Republicans’lackluster performance on Nov. 8— and voters' clear hesitance to support Trump-backed candidates — led members of his own party to request he sit the 2024 election out, or at least wait to make an announcement until afterGeorgia’s Senate runoffis called in December.
“If the Republican Party’s focus in the future is going to be enforcing loyalty to Donald Trump … then we’re done,” he told the outlet.
source: people.com
