Is it time to dump Donald Trump?| Planet America

WASHINGTON – Former president Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he will seek the presidency again in 2024, even as a rising number of Republicans are urging the party to look elsewhere in light of their 2022 midterm debacle.

"I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," Trump said during an announcement speech at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla.
Minutes before his scheduled 9 p.m. announcement from Mar-a-Lago, Trump filed a paperwork with the Federal Election Commission saying he was running for president in 2024, and setting up a fundraising account.

"America's comeback starts right now," Trump said during an announcement speech at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla.
Trump had hoped to use a ceremony at his Mar-a-Lago home to seize credit for Republican election victories; but the GOP's failure to take the Senate and struggles in House races scotched that plan and forced Trump onto the political defensive
Many Republicans blamed Trump and Trump-like candidates for the GOP's poor showing in the 2022 midterm elections and noted that the party as led by the businessman also fared badly in the elections of 2018 and 2020.

"Trump's cost us the last three elections, and I don't want to see it happen a fourth time," Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan told CNN, an example of some of the most pointed criticism from Republicans since Trump's first run for the presidency in 2015-16.