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After the GOP underperformed, some Republicans are saying it's time to move on from Trump. Ron DeSantis handily won reelection in a state that has long been considered a swing state, defeating Democrat Charlie Crist with a roughly 20-point lead as of Wednesday. The drastic difference has already led Republicans to turn to DeSantis for 2024 hopes, a prospect that now seems all the more likely. But one of the biggest blows to the GOP, and Trump, came in Pennsylvania, where Lt. Gov. Some were already propping up DeSantis as the best choice for the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
An ex-GOP strategist suggested that former President Donald Trump has no chance of winning the 2024 presidential election. Scott Jennings made his prediction based on the early results of the 2022 midterm elections. Many Trump-backed Republican candidates underperformed in Tuesday's midterm elections. "How could you look at these results tonight and conclude Trump has any chance of winning a national election in 2024?" Results were still coming in from the midterm elections, which will determine the balance of power in both the House and the Senate, into Wednesday.
An ex-White House aide branded Donald Trump as a "loser" amid GOP setbacks in the midterm elections. Alyssa Farah Griffin — who is now a co-host of "The View" — said that the Republican Party can only "thrive" without him. "If you want the Republican Party to thrive, we have got to just finally speak out and say, 'This man is a loser,' " Griffin said of Trump. "How could you look at these results tonight and conclude Trump has any chance of winning a national election in 2024?" Ron DeSantis, who won a historic re-election victory and solidified himself as a star of the Republican Party.
Former President Donald Trump is all but certain to cast his name for the 2024 presidency. However, few GOP senators want to see him as the party's frontrunner, Politico reported. One Republican senator told Politico's Politics Bureau Chief Jonathan Martin that, at max, just five out of the 50 current senators would want Trump as the GOP's frontrunner. In July, two GOP senators anonymously told The Hill that the January 6 hearings investigating the Capitol riot were damaging Trump's prospects. "I think we're going to have a crowded field for president," McConnell said in July.
Republican analysts blamed Trump for the GOP's disappointing midterm results. The former president had endorsed hundreds of candidates in the midterm elections as he sought to cement his control over the party. In a CNN interview, former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin blamed the failures on the poor quality of the candidates Trump championed. Liam Donovan, a former aide to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, also laid the blame at the feet of the former president. He is considered Trump's leading rival for the 2024 GOP nomination, and Trump had attacked him in interviews on the eve of the midterms.
Trump issues lengthy response to January 6 hearing
  + stars: | 2022-10-14 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: 1 min
Former President Donald Trump does not say whether he will comply with the subpoena by the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol Hill insurrection, in a lengthy response to the committee posted on Truth Social. CNN's John Avlon and columnist Scott Jennings discuss.
Democratic strategist James Carville says he was "totally flummoxed" by CNN political commentator Scott Jennings' reaction to reports about Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker.
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