Trump has zeroed in on the Arizona effort and a lawsuit in Georgia to insist that not only will he be restored to office, but that Republicans will also retake the majority in the Senate through those same efforts, according to the people familiar with what he has been saying. There is no legal mechanism for reinstating a president, and the efforts by Republicans in the Arizona Senate to recount the votes in the state’s largest county have been derided as fake and inept by local Republican officials, who say the result is a partisan circus that is eroding confidence in elections.
President Biden’s victory, with more than 80 million votes, was certified by Congress once the Jan. He has been echoing a theory promulgated by supporters like Mike Lindell, the chief executive of MyPillow, and Sidney Powell, the lawyer being sued for defamation by election machine companies for spreading conspiracy theories about the safety of their ballots. 6 certification of the Electoral College vote, has told several people he believes he could be “reinstated” to the White House this August, according to three people familiar with his remarks. Trump, who White House officials said watched with pleasure as his supporters stormed the Capitol and disrupted the Jan. Trump has been narrowly focused on three things - his repeated, false claims that the 2020 election was “rigged” and his support for efforts to try to overturn the results the state and local investigations into the practices of the Trump Organization and the state of his business. 6 riot by his supporters at the Capitol, have been booted from Republican leadership.įrom his strange dual perch of irrelevance and dominance, Mr. Lawmakers who have challenged his dominance of the party, like Representative Liz Cheney, the Wyoming Republican who implored her colleagues to reject him after the Jan. Trump remains the front-runner for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2024 in every public poll so far. “Those who realize President Trump is the leader of the Republican Party and those who are in denial.”Įven in defeat, Mr. “There are two types of Republicans inside the Beltway,” Mr. Jason Miller, an adviser to the former president, agreed on Mr. Many Republican leaders are terrified of him and abasing themselves in front of him.” Beschloss said: “He’s big if the metric is that politicians are afraid of him, which is one metric of power in Washington. Trump has managed to avoid.Īs for being simultaneously big and small, Mr. Nixon, who was treated like a pariah in the way Mr. Trump had defied the model of ex-presidents who lose an election and tend to fade away, and the experience of Richard M. Michael Beschloss, the presidential historian, said Mr. Trump with made-up awards to flatter his ego and keep him engaged in helping Senate Republicans recapture a majority in 2022. Others, like Senator Rick Scott of Florida, have tried to curry favor by presenting Mr. Some party leaders, like the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, are pretending he doesn’t exist anymore, while being deferential when Mr. Still blocked from Twitter and Facebook, he has struggled to find a way to influence news coverage since leaving office and promote the fabrication that the 2020 election was stolen from him. And unlike others with a grievance, he has been able to impose his anger and preferred version of reality on a substantial slice of the American electorate - with the potential to influence the nation’s politics and weaken faith in its elections for years to come. Trump looms over the political landscape, animated by the lie that he won the 2020 election and his own fury over his defeat.
Trump is both a diminished figure and an oversized presence in American life, with a remarkable - and many say dangerous - hold on his party.Įven without his favored megaphones and the trappings of office, Mr.
Trump in person.īut as he heads to the North Carolina Republican convention on Saturday night, in what is billed as the resumption of rallies and speeches, Mr. Most of them go days or weeks without interacting with Mr. His political operation has also dwindled to a ragtag team of former advisers who are still on his payroll, reminiscent of the bare-bones cast of characters that helped lift a political neophyte to his unlikely victory in 2016.
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