Republican senator is sure: "Trump can't win election"

Donald Trump in the election campaign. (Archive image from August 2022) © Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/Imago

Donald Trump wants to run for the Republicans in the 2024 presidential election. However, one senator is sure that the ex-president will not succeed.

Washington – Several proceedings are underway against former US President Donald Trump. These include hush money payments and sexual harassment. In other respects, too, his name is repeatedly mentioned in connection with explosive developments. Despite the delicate circumstances, however, the former president does not want to give up and run for the Republicans in the 2024 presidential election.

U.S. elections: Donald Trump responsible for poor result in midterm elections?

However, Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican from the US state of Louisiana, has doubts about the success of Trump's candidacy. He justified this during an appearance on the US channel CNN with the 2022 midterm elections. The candidates openly supported by Trump had lost in important states such as Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania, so-called "swing states," Cassidy said, according to the US magazine Newsweek.

In the midterm elections, the Republicans were only able to secure a narrow majority in the House of Representatives and also suffered losses in the Senate. This is also due to the poor results in the "swing states": states that are contested between Republicans and Democrats, whose election results are in a sense on the brink. According to several Republicans, Trump is to blame for this, because he supported the nomination of extremist candidates, it is said.

Trump wants to run for the Republicans: Senator from Louisiana doubts success

According to Cassidy, Trump's support has not exactly given Republican candidates an advantage in key states, but has "hurt" much more. From this, the senator concluded: "This means that Trump will have a hard time in these swing states – which also means that he cannot win an election." Trump's biggest rival within the party is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. The race for the Republican nomination is mainly between Trump and DeSantis.

Republican Cassidy was one of seven Republicans who opposed the ex-president in the impeachment proceedings of Trump. The reason for the proceedings was the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, with supporters of Trump trying to forcibly occupy Congress after a speech by the former president. Trump became the first president in U.S. history to face impeachment proceedings twice. (bb)