Always in the news

Keep the focus on himself.  Rule #1.

Trump has suggested publicly that he intends to announce his 2024 presidential campaign next week as planned. Behind the scenes at Mar-a-Lago, in a sign of concern about his standing after disappointing results in the midterms, he remains undecided on how to proceed. However, some initial invites for the “Special Announcement” event have been sent.

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Though some invitations for the anticipated announcement have been sent [...] it was done knowing that Trump could easily change his mind and feel no need to even bother to explain if the event was eventually cancelled.

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Trump’s top staffers have firmly pressed him to announce his latest White House campaign as planned on Tuesday, the sources said, suggesting that he would appear weak and wounded by the results were he to cave to demands that he hold off until the Senate runoff early next month.

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His staffers are said to have told him: if Walker wins, he can take credit, and if Walker loses, his position would be no different.

  Guardian

He's already said he shouldn't be held responsible "at all" if his endorsees don't win.

But Trump is also being urged by a growing chorus of advisors with no formal role on his team or his political action committees, to hold off until the Senate runoff – and then decide how to announce his candidacy based on how votes break down in Georgia, the sources said.

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Delaying would also give Trump time to assess the results of the Arizona and Nevada Senate races that remain too close to call.

I don't see how he takes any of that into consideration. I think what's holding him back until now is that the RNC won't pay his legal bills after he announces.  And that, I think, isn't as much a concern as it might be considering the amount of money grifted from supporters thinking their donations would be used to promote candidates when in fact it went into Trump's pockets.

Trump biographer Tim O'Brien thinks he won't announce at all. I don't know about that.

Those "advising" he wait are thinking about last election when his trip to Georgia for the runoffs were widely seen as tanking the Republican candidates and giving Democrats the tie in the Senate.  I actually don't think that's a consideration to worry about this year in this climate.  It couldn't be clearer that Walker is Trump's key to the future.  Nothing Trump does will alter that.

The allies seeking a delay include Trump’s longtime advisor Jason Miller, who remains hugely influential to the extent that he amounts to around ten voices in the room, some Trump staffers conceded, as well as former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, now at Fox News.

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The initial plan was to have Trump announce his candidacy on Tuesday and turn the campaign launch into a several-day affair.

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Trump has long viewed [Ron] DeSantis as a threat and started attacking him before the Florida governor’s race was called, warning him against running for president in 2024 under the threat that he would release damaging information about his personal life.

In a furious and rambling statement on Thursday night, Trump tore into DeSantis: “The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, ‘I’m only focused on the governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future.’ Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer.”

The Orange Stalin has spoken.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 7:00am:

Trump confirmed that he will be holding a “special announcement” at Mar-a-Lago on Nov. 15 in a press release on Thursday night.

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The former president told Fox News on Wednesday that Republicans had “tremendous success” in the midterms and suggested he did not plan to move his announcement.

  The Hill

Totally Trumpy. Claim success, regardless of reality.

Of course, we won't know what the "special announcement" will be until he makes it.