Trump to announce 2024 presidential bid on Tuesday: Top aide

Donald Trump’s longtime advisor Jason Miller says the former Republican president will announce next week that he is taking another shot at the presidency with a White House run in 2024.

Miller said on Friday Trump has been hinting at another presidential run while campaigning for Republican candidates ahead of this week's midterm elections.

Trump, who will be 78 when the next presidential election is held, has said he will make a "very big announcement" on Tuesday.

"President Trump is going to announce on Tuesday that he is running for president," Miller told former Trump aide Steve Bannon on his podcast.

"It's gonna be a very professional, very buttoned-up announcement," he added.

Miller said Trump told him, "there doesn't need to be any question, of course, I am running."

An American political analyst and activist told Press TV last week that Trump will not have a free ride in 2024 as he had in 2016, because his opposition is the new breed of extremist Republicans.

“If Trump does announce, and soon, that he’s a 2024 candidate, it won’t be such an easy ride as 2016. He’s not likely to have people like Ted Cruz, even hated by members of his own party, or lukewarm candidates like Jeb Bush to run against him. His opposition is the new breed of extremist Republicans,” said Myles Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress.

“Candidates like DeSantis, Cotton, and others carry the same right-wing, fascistic banner, as much as Trump does. Trump would rely on his own persona as policies won’t be very different this time. All those who opposed him in 2024 have adopted his mantra and subsequently boot-licked their way into Trump’s orbit. The obvious one is Cruz,” he added.

Trump’s announcement would be followed by a string of political events.

Kellyanne Conway, who was Trump’s 2016 campaign manager and a top adviser in the Trump White House, told reporters at a roundtable last week that she expects the former president to announce “soon.”

Trump's big announcement in Florida comes after an unsatisfactory run for several candidates he supported in the midterms.

Trump had called for a Republican "giant red wave" to defeat Democrats, and the GOP achieved a much smaller victory than had been predicted.

Republicans have captured at least 211 House seats, Edison Research projected, eight short of the 218 needed to wrest the House away from Democrats and effectively halt Biden's legislative agenda, Reuters reported.

While Republicans remain favored, there were 32 House contests yet to be decided. Republicans appear poised to secure a slim majority in the 435-seat House of Representatives.

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