This Tuesday, November 15, what will be the announcement promised by Donald Trump? His candidacy for the 2024 presidential election? An idea that according to Politico causes ” a backward movement among the Republicans: even Donald Trump’s most rabid allies aren’t rushing to back a candidacy “. Many are asking her to postpone her announcement – after the results of the second round of the senatorial in Georgia.
It is a sign, according to Politico, that his authority over the party is cracking. An authority which, recalls the New York Times, ” led to three disappointing elections for Republicans. However, believes the newspaper, those who want to move on ” face a major obstacle: voters of the former president, with these two questions: how many convinced Trumpists are there still, and can we make them change their minds? »
Failure of Keri Lake in Arizona
Before this declaration by Donald Trump, expected for Tuesday evening, Monday ended with bad news for the former president: Kari Lake, the candidate he supported for the post of governor of Arizona, was beaten by Katie Hobbs. The democrat becomes, title arizona republic, the fifth female governor of Arizona. There ” soft and discreet “Katie Hobbs, with the much criticized electoral strategy, was clearly very underestimated” by the Republicans, the media, but also his own party ” remember the newspaper.
She had appeared on the national scene when she was secretary of state in Arizona – that is to say in charge of the organization of the elections – by refusing the false Republican claims that the presidential election of 2020 had been stolen. A theory of theft supported by the one she has just beaten to the post of governor, the very Trumpist Kari Lake: with this failure, ” Arizona joins other key states that have pushed back against these lies “, writes the newspaper. The question now is, asks the washington posthow Kari Lake will react, while “ many other Republican candidates did what Trump did not: concede defeat “.
An attitude that Republicans advise him to adopt, but, notes the newspaper, Kari Lake is known ” to follow his own instinct most of the time “. In fact, note the New York Timesyesterday in a tweet, the Republican chose to imply (without any proof) that the vote was marred by fraud: “ Arizonans know bullshit when they see it »,
Meanwhile, Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, is trying to become the leader of the future majority, since, as Politico“ Republicans are one seat away from taking the House “. But for Kevin McCarthy, this does not look like the crowning hoped for, carried by a “red wave”: after these disappointing midterm elections, the Republican of California is facing some resistance – a sign, according to the New York Times, of the ” disorganization of a demoralized party “.
Argentinian president’s discomfort at the G20
The G20 kicked off on Tuesday in Bali, Indonesia. Argentinian President Alberto Fernandez was due to speak but had to cancel due to health issues – a last-minute cancellation, stresses The Tribuno. He was replaced for this speech by his Minister of Foreign Affairs, Santiago Cafiero. All the press talks about an episode of hypotension – too low blood pressure.
For The Nation, it was indeed the initial diagnosis, but since the Presidential Medical Unit speaks of gastritis. His entourage, questioned by the newspaper, testifies to a “difficult episode, the president bled a lot“. However, Alberto Fernandez maintained the bilateral meeting he must have at the end of the day with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Two Americans arrested in Guatemala
In Guatemala, two Americans were arrested while transporting 166 archaeological or supposedly such pieces: spheres and stone mortars, sphinxes, figures resembling men or animals, details El Periodico. 90% of the pieces are authentic Maya antiquities, according to an archaeologist from the General Directorate of Cultural Heritage interviewed by Prensa Libre.
The newspaper specifies that of the two Americans, a man and a woman, the woman had already been apprehended last Thursday at La Aurora International Airport, in possession of two ceremonial axes dating from 600 to 900 years after our era. Under house arrest, she had remained under surveillance – and the agents finally arrested her again when they saw her and her accomplice transporting archaeological pieces in a van.