Former U.S. President Donald Trump declared Tuesday night that he will run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. He hopes to become the second commander-in-chief to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms in the history of the United States.
Trump addressed a throng assembled at Mar-a-Lago, his seaside resort in Florida, where his campaign will be based, “I am launching my candidacy for President of the United States tonight in order to make America great and magnificent again.”
Trump gave a very understated speech while surrounded by supporters, advisers, and influential conservatives. The speech was full of untrue and inflated statements about his four years in power. He repeatedly compared his first-term accomplishments with the policies of the Biden administration and the present economic situation in an attempt to arouse nostalgia for his time in office among Republicans who have begun to exhibit indications of Trump fatigue following the midterm elections. Numerous of those perceived victories, like as the restrictive immigration policies, corporate tax cuts, and pro-religious freedom bills, are nevertheless incredibly divisive.
Trump asserted that the party cannot afford to choose “a politician or conventional candidate” if it hopes to retake the White House as he addressed a roomful of Republicans who anticipate he will face primary opponents in the upcoming months.
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Trump declared, “This will not be my campaign; this will be our campaign as a whole.
Trump’s much anticipated run for office comes as he tries to retake the spotlight following the GOP’s lacklustre midterm election performance — which included the losses of numerous Trump-endorsed election sceptics — and the attendant blame game that has taken place since Election Day. With only 215 races called in their favour so far out of the 218 needed, Republicans have failed to win a majority in the Senate, failed in their efforts to fill several statewide seats, and have yet to win a majority in the House. These outcomes have put Trump and other party leaders on the defensive as they deal with disapproval from within their ranks.
Just before making his announcement at Mar-a-Lago, Trump filed the necessary paperwork with the Federal Election Committee to officially declare his candidacy.
He only spent a small portion of his speech reiterating his lies about the 2020 race, much to the pleasure of advisers and allies who have long counselled him to wage a forward-looking campaign. Trump tried at times to widen his criticisms, decrying the “vast corruption” and “entrenched interests” that, in his opinion, had engulfed Washington. He criticised the use of paper votes and compared the American electoral system to that of “third world countries.” Trump’s closest aides are worried that his obsession with spreading theories about the 2016 election would make it more difficult for him to win a national election in 2024.
Trump made it abundantly apparent during the hour-long speech that he wants Republicans to view his campaign as a sacrificial undertaking.
The legal and emotional toll his administration and post-presidential time has placed on his family members was described by him at one point. “Anyone who sincerely attempts to take on this crooked and corrupt system will be greeted with a tempest of fire that only a handful could fathom,” he added.
Trump has come under fire following last week’s midterm elections for boosting unqualified candidates who spent too much time repeating his allegations of election fraud, alienating crucial voters and eventually causing their defeats. On Tuesday, he made an effort to refute that allegation by highlighting at least one Trump-backed candidate, Kevin Kiley of California, and emphasising that Republicans seem certain to regain control of the House. At one time,
Trump appeared to blame the election results for his party’s poor showing on voters’ failure to grasp “the total consequence of the pain” brought on by the previous two years of Democratic rule in Washington.
He predicted that things would be significantly worse by 2024 and that people would clearly understand what had happened and was happening to our nation. As a result, he predicted that people would vote very differently.
