Donald Trump officially announced on Tuesday evening that he is running for president again in 2020 and will seek a second term in the White House.
Trump painted a dark picture of Biden's America, casting himself and his movement as the panacea to the nation's problems.
From now until the day of the election in 2024. Trump said during his speech that he would fight like no one had fought before.
America was described as "blood-soaked" streets, an "erased" Southern border, and a "destructive" economy by Trump. Good luck getting a turkey during Thanksgiving according to Trump.
"America is ridiculed, derided, and brought to its knees, perhaps, like never before," he said.
The former president promised to immediately tackle inflation and restore the US economy to its pre-pandemic state, but he wasn't sure how a new Trump administration would accomplish this.
Trump suggested that the commander-in-chief is weak and not fit for the job. The former president has continued to tout his denial of the results of the election.
Trump said that the decline of America is being forced upon us by Biden and the left.
Trump said at one point that his announcement was "an elegant night and this is an elegant place". As time went on, Trump's speech became almost inseparable from his political rallies that can last for hours.
Hillary Clinton defeated the former president in the 2016 election. Biden beat Trump in 2020. The violent storming of the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was caused by Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen from him.
Two years before Election Day, Trump is the first Republican to announce his candidacy. The legal requirements of his campaign were met when Trump filed his paperwork with the Federal Elections Commission.
The twice-impeached former president enters the field as the presumptive front-runner for the Republican nomination with a larger warchest than any of his potential rivals.
Trump is facing more federal and state criminal investigations than his potential opponents, with prosecutors scrutinizing everything from his handling of highly sensitive government records to his involvement in the January 6, 2021, insurrection.
Unlike most former presidents, who give up the spotlight to a new generation of successors after leaving the White House, Trump has sought to maintain control of his party apparatus while out of office and held rallies around the country.
Republican candidates seeking donations and support from the former president need to stop at Mar-a-Lago. The battles for the Arizona, Ohio, and Pennsylvania US Senate seats were some of the key races in which he played kingmaker.
As Biden's approval ratings remained underwater in most public polling this year, Republicans saw the 2020 elections as a good chance to regain power in Washington, DC Conservatives want voters to be aware of inflation and the record number of migrant apprehensions at the US- Mexico border. The precedent of a new president's first election cycle being one where voters reject the commander-in-chief had long been predicted by most political watchers.
However, the wave never materialized, as Democrats retained their Senate majority and control of the House currently remains up in the air, a development that has stunned Republicans, who had hoped to use the midterms as a clarion call for regaining the White House. If Republicans regain a majority, it will be a challenge for Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, a Trump ally who is poised to make a bid to lead the chamber.
Many of Trump's endorsed candidates lost their general election races, including GOP secretaries of state nominees who supported the former president's false claims about the 2020 election.
The hope of a Republican Senate majority in 2023 was dashed by the loss of Adam Laxalt of Nevada.
The GOP was forced to pour millions of dollars into the Ohio Senate race because it was the only one they were able to win.
The Georgia Senate race is headed to a December 6 runoff election, with Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock edging out the Trump-backed GOP nominee, Herschel Walker, on Election Day but falling just short of the 50% threshold required for victory. It is not clear what role, if any, Trump will play in the second round of voting. The party lost two seats.
The outgoing governor of Maryland said on Sunday that the former president had become a drag on the party's efforts to get more Republicans elected.
"I think it's the third election in a row that Donald Trump has cost us the race, and it's like three strikes, you're out," Hogan said. That's all he's done.
The Republican 2024 field has been shaped by Trump's will-he-won't-he dynamic as allies and rising stars waited to see what he would do.
The attack on the US Capitol during which Trump's supporters attempted to stop the verification of the 2020 election results led to the second impeachment of Trump.
After months of Trump's insistence that Biden and the Democratic Party had stolen the election from him, thousands of pro- Trump rioters besieged Congress as it officially certified the Electoral College tally that named Biden the winner. The pro-Trump demonstrator who was shot by a Capitol Police officer died in the attack. There were five Capitol Police officers who died in the days after the attack.
The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives impeached Trump for the first time in the year after he was accused of trying to stop aid to the Ukranian government. The Senate found Trump not guilty of these charges.
Only one other precedent exists in US history for what Trump wants to do.
Cleveland was the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms. He held office from 1885 to 1897. After being ousted by Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland made a political comeback.
This report was written by a former staff writer.
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