Friday 29th January 2021
Congress election next year
Trump offers his help to Republicans
Donald Trump wants to remain in US politics. The ex-president offers his party support in the upcoming congressional elections. Republicans are eager to win back a majority in the Chamber.
Former US President Donald Trump wants to remain intensively involved in the Republican Party in the future. Trump had a "very good and warm" meeting with the Republican minority leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, his team said. At the meeting in Florida, both would have discussed the goal of winning back the majority in the chamber for the Republicans in the 2022 congressional election. At the moment, the Democrats have the say in the House of Representatives and Senate – albeit with only a very narrow majorities.
Trump has pledged McCarthy to help win back the Republican majority in the House of Representatives. "President Trump's popularity has never been as great as it is today," said a statement from his own team. His support for Republican candidates has more weight "than perhaps any support ever before".
In fact, various party colleagues have turned their backs on Trump in recent months because they no longer wanted to support his bitter resistance to the election defeat. Above all, however, after the storming of the US Capitol by violent Trump supporters in early January, many Republicans – including influential – publicly broke with Trump. Other party colleagues, on the other hand, stick with him consistently – presumably with a view to Trump's still large following.
The meeting with McCarthy took place on Thursday in Trump's club resort Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. The ex-president retired there after saying goodbye to the White House last week.
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