Donald Trump for President again?

ldquoI could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldnrsquot lose any votersrdquo Donald Trump boasted during his successful 2016campaign presidentThat claim may not hold for all who voted for him that year because many defected in 2020mdashand in the 2022 midterms from his proteacutegeacutesmdashbut it is true of his core base of supportersUnshaken by the two impeachments the criminal and civil cases against him and his mercurial temperament the 51 per cent of the Republican Party who make his base hold the party hostageFor them Trump is their champion hounded by the eliteWith Florida Governor Ron DeSantis the only one in the Republican roster of his challengers or likely challengers to break into double digits in the RealClear Politics RCP aggregation of polls with 23 per cent Trump appears to have the first step of the presidential racemdashgetting the party nominationmdashrace locked upAnd if a challenger is able to win the party nomination against all odds Trump is not above running as a third party candidate or an independent and dooming the Republican PartyIn 1992 a conservative businessman Ross Perot ran as an independent drawing 189 per cent of the politically conservative votes that could have gone to sitting president George Bush the senior leading to his defeat to Bill ClintonIn the RCP polls aggregation Trump and President Joe are running neck and neck in the 43 per cent rangeAnd this is where the challenge of increasing their lead lies for both septuagenarian Trump with an unfavourability rating of 55 per cent and octogenarian Biden with 526 per centContrary to common perceptions that voters abandoned Trump wholesale he actually increased his votes by over 11 million from 6298 million in 2016 to 7422 million in 2020 but with bigger mobilisation Biden outdid him by getting 8128 million votesThe big divide in US politics is between the collegeeducated elite and the rest with some racial variations even which is shrinking among someBoth groups spew contempt at each other from their positions of being high up in an intellectual nirvana or a downtoearth daily grindEven if it is ultimately manifested in economic status55Percentage of Americans who find Trump unfavourableThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever