Donald Trump looking at Nov. 14 for 'launch' of 2024 presidential campaign, reports Axios, NY Times

Former President Donald Trump is eyeing Nov. 14 for a kick-off to his White House comeback campaign, Axios and the New York Times reported Friday.

Axios national political correspondent Jonathan Swan reported that the former president's "inner circle is discussing announcing the launch of a 2024 presidential campaign on Nov. 14," citing a trio of sources with knowledge of the talks.

The Axios report follows weeks of speculation that Trump would formally announce his candidacy right after this Tuesday's midterm election.

Axios was first to report the Trump-proposed plans.

The New York Times, citing "people familiar with the planning," reported the same plans in the works by the Trump team, noting that no final decisions had been made.

Neither media report indicated where the announcement would be made. In 2019, Trump held a rally in Orlando to formally declare he would seek re-election in 2020.

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A comeback White House campaign? It's been done before.

A Trump White House comeback run would cut against American political custom, tradition and history. But it would not be unprecedented.

One other president who was defeated in a bid for re-election came back to win a second term. That was Grover Cleveland, who lost his re-election bid in 1888 but won a return effort in 1892.

On the list of 45 U.S. presidents, Cleveland counts twice, as the 22nd and 24th commander in chief.

And it's been 54 years since a major party presidential nominee won the presidency after a previous losing campaign.

In 1960, Richard Nixon was the Republican nominee for president, but lost to John F. Kennedy. But Nixon's 1968 comeback campaign ended with success, and he was re-elected in 1972 before resigning over the Watergate scandal two years later.

Trump has long indicated he would seek the White House in 2024, even as he is enmeshed in a host of investigations and controversies.

The list includes a Georgia probe into his effort to pressure Georgia officials to "find" him votes after the 2020 election, a U.S. House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a Justice Department probe into his keeping of top secret and other government documents at Mar-a-Lago and a New York state case based on his company's financial dealings..

Trump vs. DeSantis in 2024?

If Trump runs, he could face a challenge from another Florida resident.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is widely viewed as a potential presidential candidate in 2024. He repeatedly has dodged the question of whether he'll run, leaving the door open to challenge Trump.

The most recent example came during the governor's debate last month with his Democratic challenger Charlie Crist, who pressed DeSantis to say he'll serve all four years if elected to a second term as governor.

"Why don’t you look in the eyes of the people of the state of Florida and say to them, if you’re reelected, you will serve a full four years as governor," Crist said. "Yes or no? Yes or no, Ron?”

DeSantis stood stone-faced without answering as Crist pressed him, with the debate lapsing into silence at one point. The moderator eventually turned to DeSantis for a response.

“I just want to make things very, very clear,” DeSantis said. “The only worn-out old donkey I’m looking to put out to pasture is Charlie Crist.”

DeSantis's refusal to rule out running against Trump appears to be generating friction between the two men. DeSantis isn't appearing at Trump's rally this weekend for U.S. Sen Marco Rubio, instead holding his own rallies at the same time on the other side of the state.

Trump recently shared a video of Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News anchor, saying DeSantis can't beat Trump.

"I AGREE!" Trump said in sharing Kelly's remarks on social media.

Antonio Fins is a politics and business editor at the Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at afins@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.

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