Republican Party divisions deepen as Trump makes 2024 announcement

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Following bitterly disappointing midterm election results, the Republican Party faced more internal divisions Tuesday about who should lead it into the 2024 presidential election and on Capitol Hill for the next two years.

At a Tuesday meeting of the Republican Governors Association, attendees in Orlando applauded loudly when former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie ridiculed former President Donald Trump and said he should not be the GOP nominee for president in 2024, according to Axios. Those pointed comments came hours before Trump once again declared himself a candidate in speech delivered from his Mar-a-Lago home and country club.

Earlier Tuesday, Trump’s most prominent rival at the moment, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, made some of his most barbed comments to date about the former president. DeSantis lumped Trump in with the “corporate media” as attacking him out of spite and jealousy, and gloated a bit about his own victory a week ago, comparing it with the poor showings of Trump-endorsed candidates.

By Jon Ward.

Full story at Yahoo News.