GOP mainstreamers fear Trump's obsession with the 2020 election and brash style will hurt the party in the midterms—and in 2024 as well.
endorsed him for the Michigan state senate in a race few outside of the district were paying attention to until the former president weighed in.
As the GOP's dominant figure with a rock-solid base of support, party insiders, though, are looking to Trump to help Republicans secure the future, not rewrite the past. Most Republicans believe their party's presidential nomination in 2024 is Trump's should he want it, and polls indicate that the majority of GOP voters want him to run again.
Many Democrats, on the other hand, view Trump's eye on the rearview mirror as the gift that keeps on giving. If he wants to keep the focus on 2020, they are more than happy to oblige. Congressional Democrats are leading the hearings into the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, and hope to demonstrate that Trump's post-election rhetoric helped spur the so-called"insurrection.