Trump not expected to announce a White House run in July even as a pre-midterms candidacy remains an option

• Trump isn't expected to announce this month that he'll run for president in 2024.

• Trump has teased a run for months.

• He could still announce a run before the November midterms, but his aides are urging him to wait.

Former President Donald Trump has backed off considering a presidential run announcement in July, a Republican strategist who spoke with two of Trump's advisors told Insider.

News that Trump was considering a run as early as July was first reported by The New York Times, though NBC News had reported a month earlier that Trump was weighing an announcement on July 4. The holiday came and went without Trump declaring his third candidacy for the White House.

Trump has been teasing a run for months and continues to hold enormous sway over the GOP. He initially wanted to announce his candidacy as early as last year, after the Biden administration's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, a top GOP strategist told Insider.

Trump's advisers are urging him to delay an announcement until 2023, but a chief perspective for Trump would be that of of his wife, Melania Trump, according to the GOP strategist who spoke to Trump's advisors.

Trump's post-presidential office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

His office hasn't openly discussed when or whether he'll make another bid for the presidency. When Trump was president he frequently made announcements on social media to the surprise of White House aides and confidants, a pattern suggesting his plans could still change.

Twitter removed Trump from its platform after the violent January 6 attack on the Capitol but the former president now communicates openly through his own social media company, Truth Social. He hasn't said anything there either about another White House bid.

Congressional Republicans and GOP candidates for office have been nervous that Trump will make his intentions clear before the November midterms. Should he announce before then, Republican politicians are likely to get peppered with questions about Trump's future in the party and the revelations that have emerged during hearings about Trump's role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Trump is reportedly considering making his presidential announcement in Florida to show Gov. Ron DeSantis — a rising star in the Republican Party — "who the boss is," according to Rolling Stone.

Trump, who is now a Florida resident, left his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach in June for his perennial relocation to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. He continues to hold rallies across the US, to host eager GOP candidates at his properties, and to endorse candidates for the midterms.

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