Donald Trump is widely expected to launch a third bid for the White House on Tuesday night, despite several of his handpicked candidates losing in last week’s US midterm elections and a growing chorus of voices from within the Republican party urging the former president to step aside.
He is set to make what his advisers have described as a “special announcement” at Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, which Trump referred to as his “winter White House” when he was president.
For more than a year, he has made no secret of his desire to run again for the presidency in 2024, repeating his baseless claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” and “stolen” from him.