Trump considers 2024 campaign kickoff on Inauguration Day

[ericpolitico]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/trump-considers-2024-campaign-kick-inauguration-day-n1249595

President Donald Trump is discussing the possibility of announcing a campaign to retake the White House in 2024 on Inauguration Day and skipping the swearing-in of his successor, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

There is “preliminary planning” underway for a Jan. 20 event to kick off a new Trump bid, the people familiar with the discussions said, though it’s possible the president could make the announcement earlier as no final decisions have been made.

Regardless of the timing of a campaign announcement, Trump is not expected to attend the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, according to the people familiar with the discussions. He also does not plan to invite Biden to the White House or even call him, they said.

Biden transition officials said Trump’s attendance at the inauguration, or lack thereof, won’t affect their plans.

But Trump is keen on the idea of formally launching a 2024 campaign on Inauguration Day because that’s when he filed for re-election in 2017, people familiar with the discussions said.

Trump has recently told some advisers he wants to announce a 2024 campaign shortly after the Electoral College meets on Dec. 14, the people familiar with the discussions said. If he were to announce earlier, he could still hold a campaign-style event or rally on Jan. 20. The Daily Beast first reported that Trump might hold a rally on Inauguration Day.

Biden aides didn’t expected a traditional transition if he won the election. Specifically they didn’t anticipate that Trump would invite Biden to the White House and had concerns about such a meeting during a pandemic given the lack of safety protocols followed in the West Wing. NBC News has reported that Biden aides determined any such meeting would likely take place outside anyway.

It would be a rare, although not unprecedented, breach of norms for a sitting president not to attend the swearing-in of his successor. John Adams, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Johnson all skipped the event while Richard Nixon departed the White House after his resignation and did not attend Gerald Ford's swearing-in.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Who cares if anyone is paying attention it's the Trumpian hard core supporters, everyone else knows that Trump is gonna get prosecuted after he leaves

[DaleCooper]

Such an early kickoff makes me suspect that his 2024 ambitions are a combination of delusion and the desire to scam his supporters some more rather than to actually win in 2024.

[neostassenite31]

An extremely early "kickoff" could also ward off some primary challengers and isn't necessarily bad from the perspective of Democratic strategists planning for 2022

[PRESIDENT STANTON]

Its brilliant that President Trump is considering a inauguration day announcement for 2024; it ensures that the SDNY & state attorney general can proceed with any active legal action against the president, as he would be a candidate & there's precedence against prosecution or persecution efforts against a candidate; well at least since Democrats were bellyaching about Joe Biden should be immune! Whats good for the goose is good for the gander in many peoples view!

[Arizona Iced Tea]

Aww, I wanted to see a Tom Cotton test run

[morgankingsley]

The real question will be if he keeps it up the whole 4 years

[Alben Barkley]

Let him. No one will be watching it, as more people will be watching Biden get sworn-in than they watched his inauguration in 2017.

An extremely early "kickoff" could also ward off some primary challengers and isn't necessarily bad from the perspective of Democratic strategists planning for 2022

No it is not. Trump staying in the spotlight is maybe the worst thing possible for the GOP if they want to have a chance at taking back the suburbs during the midterms.

[Alben Barkley]

Its brilliant that President Trump is considering a inauguration day announcement for 2024; it ensures that the SDNY & state attorney general can proceed with any active legal action against the president, as he would be a candidate & there's precedence against prosecution or persecution efforts against a candidate; well at least since Democrats were bellyaching about Joe Biden should be immune! Whats good for the goose is good for the gander in many peoples view!

There is no such precedent, Hillary was in fact investigated by the feds over her emails when she was a candidate, and who said Joe Biden should be immune and for... what, exactly?

More importantly, why am I wasting my time talking to you?

[Senator-elect Spark]

Very Trumpian.

[It’s so Joever]

Its brilliant that President Trump is considering a inauguration day announcement for 2024; it ensures that the SDNY & state attorney general can proceed with any active legal action against the president, as he would be a candidate & there's precedence against prosecution or persecution efforts against a candidate; well at least since Democrats were bellyaching about Joe Biden should be immune! Whats good for the goose is good for the gander in many peoples view!

We get it, you love criminals.

[Barack Oganja]

Ignoring the absurdity of another run, from an attention standpoint it doesn't make sense. Inauguration day is the one day in 2021 where no other political story will be the top headline. Literally the next day would make a bigger splash.

[It’s so Joever]

Let him. No one will be watching it, as more people will be watching Biden get sworn-in than they watched his inauguration in 2017.

An extremely early "kickoff" could also ward off some primary challengers and isn't necessarily bad from the perspective of Democratic strategists planning for 2022

No it is not. Trump staying in the spotlight is maybe the worst thing possible for the GOP if they want to have a chance at taking back the suburbs during the midterms.

I think he meant it’s not bad from a Democratic perspective.

[Former Crackhead Mike Lindell]

Ignoring the absurdity of another run, from an attention standpoint it doesn't make sense. Inauguration day is the one day in 2021 where no other political story will be the top headline. Literally the next day would make a bigger splash.

The idea is to be able to brag about crowd sizes. A Covid guideline adhering Biden inauguration in DC will almost certainly be dwarfed in attendance numbers by a guideline-flaunting Trump rally in Mobile Alabama.

Trump's been hung up on his inauguration crowd size for four years, this is his solution

[beaver2.0]

He should attend the inauguration and then jump in front of Biden and take the oath of office.  As we all know if he does that he gets another term.

[politics_king]

Trump will totally do this.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Trump should attend the inauguration.

Then announce his campaign when he returns to West Palm Beach.

[South Dakota Democrat]

Its brilliant that President Trump is considering a inauguration day announcement for 2024; it ensures that the SDNY & state attorney general can proceed with any active legal action against the president, as he would be a candidate & there's precedence against prosecution or persecution efforts against a candidate; well at least since Democrats were bellyaching about Joe Biden should be immune! Whats good for the goose is good for the gander in many peoples view!

What are you even talking about?

[South Dakota Democrat]

Let him. No one will be watching it, as more people will be watching Biden get sworn-in than they watched his inauguration in 2017.

An extremely early "kickoff" could also ward off some primary challengers and isn't necessarily bad from the perspective of Democratic strategists planning for 2022

No it is not. Trump staying in the spotlight is maybe the worst thing possible for the GOP if they want to have a chance at taking back the suburbs during the midterms.

Re-read the post.

[MillennialModerate]

In the America that led the world and we could be proud of - not attending would be considered a disgusting act. It will be cheered however. The GOP hypocrisy knows no bounds