“I’m going to make a very big announcement on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at Mar-a-Lago,” Trump told a cheering crowd in Vandalia, Ohio, on Monday night, where he was holding his final midseason fundraising rally of Senate candidate JD Vance. “We don’t want anything to diminish the importance of tomorrow.” Trump has been increasingly clear about his plans to launch a third presidential campaign, saying in recent days that he would “very, very, very likely” run again and make his intentions official “very, very soon.” “I’ll probably have to do it again, but stay tuned,” he said Sunday night in Miami. “Stay tuned for tomorrow night in the great state of Ohio.” Republican officials and some in Trump’s orbit have urged him to wait until the end of the midterms to launch his campaign, in part to avoid turning the election into a referendum on him and to protect him from potential liability if Republicans don’t they do just as well. the party hopes. But Trump has been eager to press ahead and has said privately for weeks that he might announce his plans at one of his home rallies, even as aides discussed possible venues and dates for a formal announcement in the coming days. At a rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend, he told the crowd that “in the next very, very, very short time, you’re going to be so happy, okay?” “You’d be surprised how soon. But first we have to win a historic victory for Republicans on November 8,” he said. Trump won Ohio, once considered a hotbed, by eight points in both 2016 and 2020. The state also proved an early test of his support when his decision to endorse Vance in the state’s ultra-competitive primary in Senate led to the victory of the political newcomer a full Republican field. Vance, an author, businessman and one-time Trump critic, is part of a new generation of Republican leaders who have embraced Trump’s “America First” positions, including his isolationist foreign policy and focus on immigration.
