“To make America wonderful and excellent again, I pronounce tonight my candidacy for the presidency of the United States,” the former president said.
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Just over two years after squandering the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, the two-time accused former president who pushed for one to stay in effect has again declared himself a presidential candidate.
“The return of America begins now,” Trump said Tuesday night from Mar-a-Lago, the mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, which FBI agents searched in August.
“To make America wonderful and excellent again, I pronounce tonight my candidacy for the presidency of the United States,” he said. Trump, who lately is the subject of at least three separate investigations into his conduct.
Prior to his speech, the former president appeared before the Federal Election Commission on Tuesday to create a “Main Campaign Committee. “
Speaking from the ballroom of the Florida mansion, Mr. Trump called for the end of his first term, as thousands of Americans died of covid every day while the nation’s capital is still feeling the insurrection it sparked in a last-ditch attempt to remain in the White House, a time when America “was in a position for its golden age. “
“Our country was on the cusp of power, prosperity and prestige, dominating all its rivals, defeating all enemies and going into the long term sure of itself and so strong,” he said, before boasting of having “turned the page” in “globalist liquidations. “Using an anti-Semitic trope used to attack Jewish financiers.
He added that his departure from the White House in January 2021 had turned the United States into “a country in decline” and “a failed country” that can only be stored by returning it to power.
Trump’s announcement ends weeks of hypotheses about when the disgraced former president would officially declare himself the presidential candidate for a third consecutive presidential election, after winning the race in 2016 before losing Biden 4 years later.
Donald and Melania Trump enter the living room of their Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 15.
He had continually mocked the option of such an announcement in a succession of his iconic political rallies, intending to pigeonhole his approved candidates for the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the governors’ mansions in the United States, all of whom got his approval by repeating the lies he has told. I’ve been talking about the 2020 election since it’s become transparent that he would lose them.
According to some Trumpworld experts, Trump’s claim that his candidacy for the 2024 election has accelerated due to the preference of potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, adding Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
DeSantis, once a stalwart of the former president, has become the favorite candidate of Republicans who remain enamored with Mr. DeSantis’ taste of politics, performative, riddled with grievances and driven by the culture war. Trump, however, grew tired of the president’s previous antics and his tendency to unelected candidates as he did in many Senate midterm races.
Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
According to a polling memo released by the anti-tax organization Club for Growth Action, Mr. DeSantis among the number one constituency in the key early states of Iowa and New Hampshire has risen 11 percent over the past three months.
Among the likely viewers in the Iowa caucus, the Florida governor leads Trump by a margin of 48% to 37%, with 16% undecided. The number one electorate of the New Hampshire Republican Party now outperforms Trump by a margin of 52% to 37%.
DeSantis declined to say whether he will run for president in 2024, but disappointed Trump by not ruling him out. Prior to the former president’s announcement, Mr. DeSantis noted that the candidates he endorsed in last week’s election decisively defeated his Democratic opponents, while the list of candidates approved by Mr. Trump had lost more frequently.
On one occasion Tuesday, DeSantis drew attention to this by suggesting attendees “check the dashboard on Tuesday night. “
Trump’s aides said his announcement was also due to a preference for leveraging their nominee’s prestige to protect himself from scam charges.
The former president is lately the subject of no less than 3 separate grand jury investigations, two federal, one, a statewide grand jury investigation in Fulton County, Georgia, aimed at his efforts to cancel the election he lost two years ago. .
One of two federal investigations into him would focus on his efforts to overturn the election at the federal level, either by filing a false voter certificate at the National Archives and fomenting a mob of his supporters to attack Congress in hopes of preventing certification of his loss. Mr. Biden.
The third, which legal experts say could lead to an indictment in the coming weeks, centers on his alleged theft and illegal retention of national defense data at his home in Palm Beach, Florida, after his term as president expired in January 2021.
He referred to the myriad investigations into him about an hour after his meandering comments, calling the “militarization of the judicial system” “the ultimate serious threat to our civilization” and vowing to put in place a “top-down review” of the agencies lately. investigating it “to blank the rot and corruption of Washington, DC. “
“I’m a victim of that, I will,” he said.
Confidants of the former president have warned that Trump believed that pointing to himself as a candidate opposed to the incumbent would protect him from impeachment, legal experts have questioned the prudence of such a strategy.
Former U. S. President Donald Trump announces he will run for president of the United States in the 2024 U. S. presidential election on one occasion at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, U. S. , Nov. 15, 2022.
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Donald and Melania Trump enter the living room of their Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 15.
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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis.
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