{"id":1180022,"date":"2022-11-16T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180022"},"modified":"2022-11-17T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T18:31:36","slug":"local-party-leaders-react-to-trump-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180022","title":{"rendered":"Local party leaders react to Trump announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/TRUMP-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1180023\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The road to the White House in 2024 began Tuesday night with former President Trump announcing he is running to be president again.  The Smith County Democratic Party said they welcome the announcement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We kind of look forward to seeing Trump galvanize around the country. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna help the Democrats quite a bit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Smith County Democratic Party Chair Hector Garza. Smith county Republicans said it is too early to predict a nominee. Smith County Republican Party Chair David Stein remarked, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If he wants to run and feels that he has the backing to run again for the presidency, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his right to do that and if he decides not to, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his right also.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Trump, with a loyal fan base, could potentially face off against rising GOP star, Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The story in Florida is not President Trump, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not trying to avoid that. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s give DeSantis credit for what he did,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Stein. Garza commented, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot of the Republicans are going to Ron DeSantis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s side which is gonna split the Party and they are gonna have a lot of turmoil.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Both party leaders spoke with our news partner KETK. In a survey released by the Texas Republican Party on Monday, 43% of Texas Republicans say they would vote for DeSantis over Trump in the 2024 primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The road to the White House in 2024 began Tuesday night with former President Trump announcing he is running to be president again. The Smith County Democratic Party said they welcome the announcement. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We kind of look forward to seeing Trump galvanize around the country. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gonna help the Democrats quite a bit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1180022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Local party leaders react to Trump announcement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1180032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/TRUMP-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Local party leaders react to Trump announcement","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1180022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 06:03:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/TRUMP-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Local party leaders react to Trump announcement","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180025,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180022\/revisions\/1180025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}