Niall Ferguson: Why I now believe Donald Trump will regain the White House

American novelist Thomas Wolfe noted in his 1935 work Of Time And The River that the baseball World Series regularly coincides with the ‘furious apogee’ of an election, with its ‘speeches, accusations, dire predictions and impassioned promises’. For according to President Joe Biden, today’s midterm elections are not between the Democrats and Republicans, but between democracy itself and ‘an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic’. Trump could be poised to make a come back to the White House as midterm's start in the US Speaking in Philadelphia in early September, he was, of course, referring to Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ band of red-hat-clad supporters. However, that doesn’t marry with the fact that Trump was a large part of the reason the Republicans lost not only the White House but also the Senate in 2020. : Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump arrive for a rally at the Dayton International Airport  Trump campaigned at the rally for Ohio Republican candidates including Republican candidate for U.S. Senate JD Vance Indeed, big beasts Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, who will lead the Republicans in the Senate and House, respectively, would much rather Donald Trump did not run in 2024. Big beast Mitch McConnell will lead the Republicans in the Senate Meanwhile Kevin McCarthy, who will lead the Republicans in the House, would much rather Donald Trump did not run in 2024, but will not say so publicly Trump was not wholly unconvincing when he argued earlier this year that Russia would not have dared invade Ukraine on his watch, and that China would be equally unlikely to risk an invasion of Taiwan with him back in the White House.