Former President Trump is poised to lead a national election integrity campaign after he leaves office, his adviser said Thursday (Jan. 21), in what will be his first move in the coming months.
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, told “Just the News AM” on Thursday that he expects former President Trump to “become a national leader on ballot and voting integrity” in the coming months.
Miller, who flew with Trump and his Family on Air Force One from Washington to Florida on Wednesday morning, revealed that Trump “has a lot of goals for the next few years …… including winning back the House and Senate for Republicans in 2022 to make sure we can stop the Democrats’ madness (behavior).
Miller added that a lot of important work needs to be done on voter integrity, but that it “can never be done in Washington” because Democratic lawmakers won’t allow the issue to be taken seriously.
After the November presidential election, Trump and his campaign and lawyers launched a series of high-profile investigations into how ballots were counted across the country on Election Day, Election Night and absentee ballots.
Miller said he believes Trump is close to rolling out plans, which are expected to take full shape in the coming months, that will require close cooperation with states and legislatures to ensure the validity and integrity of future U.S. elections and the citizen vote.
Miller said that although Trump has not yet made a decision on whether to run again in 2024, he would like to see Trump return to the White House in 2025 and continue for a second term.
Previously, there were media rumors that Trump was considering forming a new party. The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday (Jan. 19), citing people familiar with the matter, that President Trump has recently discussed with his subordinates about forming a new political party so that he can continue to exert influence after he leaves the White House.
The sources said President Trump discussed the matter with several aides and other people close to him last week. The president is said to have said he wants to call the new party the “Patriot Party.
It is unclear how serious Trump is about starting a new party, which would require a significant investment of Time and resources, the report said.
Polls show that Trump has maintained strong support among Republican voters. Trump has a large number of supporters, some of whom were not deeply involved in Republican party politics prior to Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Forming a third party is usually difficult because it does not have enough support to play a significant role in national elections. And efforts to establish a new party could face strong opposition from Republican party officials, who predictably would be very unhappy with Trump’s diverted support from Republican candidates.
The Democratic-held House of Representatives is poised to submit articles of impeachment against Trump to the Senate as early as Friday (22nd), and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced on Thursday (21st) a 2-week delay in impeachment, prioritizing Biden‘s cabinet nomination hearings.
McConnell recently publicly expressed dissatisfaction with Trump, saying that Trump should be responsible for the January 6 violence in Congress and should be impeached.
But several heavyweight Republican senators have made it clear that Trump has left office, is no longer president, and is not eligible to be impeached or convicted again. If Trump is convicted, he will no longer be able to hold any elected official position, including running for president.
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