Trump 2024: Will the former U.S. president run again?

Donald Trump is the leader for the 2024 U.S. presidential election among Republican voters, according to some very early polls. The big question looms over both parties: will he or won’t he try to reclaim the Oval Office?

Take for instance Dec. 20, 2020, when the former U.S. president sent 28 tweets, many times claiming voting fraud, attacking the media and those in his party he felt didn’t stand up for him, and retweeting anyone spouting conspiracy theories of a rigged election.

Of course, at that point, the deadly and potentially legacy-defining Jan. 6 insurrection at Capitol Hill (Trump’s role is still being investigated by a congressional committee) was just a couple of weeks away. And a few days after that, Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms would permanently suspend the former president, citing fears he would incite further violence.

So without his megaphone that captured immediate headlines, in the early months of 2021 Trump receded to the background. The Washington Post’s Philip Bump showed in April that Google search interest and the frequency of Trump's appearances on cable TV had both returned to roughly the low levels they were before he ran for office.

But while his dominance of the mainstream news cycle has faded, and a myriad of legal woes stare him down, he still tops early polls of Republican voters for 2024 presidential candidates.