“Like so many Florida snowbirds, former President Donald Trump and his team will flock back north, to the New York region, after spending his first months out of the White House at his beachside Mar-a-Lago estate. Trump and his relatively small band of post-White House staffers and political aides are actively discussing when to vacate Mar-a-Lago and temporarily relocate to Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to Trump advisors who spoke with Insider this week. Mar-a-Lago, a private club that also serves as Trump’s residence and post-presidential office, closes just after Memorial Day, when South Florida becomes a decidedly hot, muggy, and flat-out swampy affair” Business Insider reports.

“But for Trump, who’s attempting to maintain control over the Republican Party while mulling a 2024 presidential run, climate isn’t his only consideration. ‘They’re moving the whole operation to New Jersey because they’re going to start doing more fundraising,’ one Trump advisor familiar with the deliberations said. As Bedminster is about 50 miles from Manhattan, the move will put Trump closer to New York City’s powerful and prolific community of Republican donors as he considers a third run for president in 2024. The move would also effectively shift the center of power for Republican politics from South Florida to the suburbs of New York, at least for a few months. The dozens of ambitious Republican pols who have traveled Florida for an audience with Trump – or present Trump with an award, as Sen. Rick Scott of Florida recently did – would beeline to New Jersey. A Trump spokeswoman declined to comment for this story.”