Despite investigations into his conduct, stinging election losses for candidates he endorsed and mounting criticism from members of his own party, Donald Trump will seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024.
During a meandering speech given from a ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago country club and home, Trump said, "America's comeback starts right now."
He announced his candidacy for president of the United States in order to make America great and glorious again.
Donald Trump is the likely front-runner to win the Republican nomination for a third straight time. Two years after he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, his supporters staged a violent insurrection at the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
On Tuesday, without evidence, Trump claimed that the Chinese government interfered in the last election in order to keep him from being reelected.
"Many people think that China was involved in the 2020 election, just saying, just saying," Trump said.
He wanted to portray the country as in crisis after he left the White House.
All they had to do was sit back and watch. Drugs were coming into our country at the lowest level in a long time because the border was so tight, and inflation was not high.
After a week of criticism from Republican politicians and pundits, Trump is attempting to seize the national spotlight again. The Republicans lost control of the U.S. Senate and a larger margin of victory in the House of Representatives in the mid-term elections. Candidates who parroted Trump's claims of a stolen election went down to defeat in dozens of statewide races.
The poor performance of candidates endorsed by Trump almost immediately led Republicans to look at his apparent rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who won his reelection bid by a 20-point margin. The GOP should move on from the former president according to some.
Current and former advisers to Trump had urged him to delay the event until after the Georgia election. It was too late to catch flights to Florida by the time most Republican lawmakers finished their private meetings.
Instead of a show of in-person support from Republican Congressional leaders or GOP Governors, many of whom gathered earlier in the day in nearbyOrlando at a meeting of the the Republican Governors Association, Tuesday's announcement was attended by notable such right wing personalities as My Pillow CEO.
DeS antis is young. Metaxas told Yahoo News that the Florida governor can wait and see if he wants to run for president.
Sebastian Gorka, the conservative media personality who served briefly as a White House adviser, and Roger Stone, the political strategist who was pardoned by Trump in 2020, were also present.
In the coming campaign, Trump will pick off his potential GOP rivals the same way he picked off his rivals in the previous campaign, said Stone.
Stone said that he doesn't think his opponent can stand too much scrutiny.
As the eclectic crowd arrived at Mar-a-Lago and mingled beneath a large "Make America Great Again" banner, the gathering was notably absent of Republican elected officials. Less than an hour before the event began, Arkansas' Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson made it known that he wouldn't be supporting Trump.
Since last week's election, when many Trump-endorsed candidates lost, establishment Republicans and conservative media have criticized the former president.
The same conditions were in place when Trump was on the runway in 2015. The mood at Mar-a-Lago on Tuesday evening was uncommonly sunny, the feeling closer to that of a campaign about to launch than of a former president running for the White House.
Trump will need to win enough Republican primary contests in order to get the delegates he needs to win the nomination in Milwaukee. He could face a number of challengers who could cause him to lose support. During the assault on the U.S. Capitol, Mike Pence, his former vice president, was threatened by Trump's supporters.
Since launching his first presidential run, the 76-year-old former reality TV star and New York real estate developer has transformed the Republican Party. The GOP used to be dominated by free-market economic conservatives and national defense hawks who supported the U.S. presence on the world stage.
In the eyes of his critics, Trump coarsened American politics and sought to insist on false claims. His time as president was marked by scandal and constant change. Russia helped Trump win the 2016 election. He was impeached for threatening to stop defense aid to Ukraine unless officials investigated his son. His supporters attacked the Capitol in an attempt to overturn his 2020 election loss and he was impeached again in 2021.
Through it all, Trump still has the support of a group of voters on the right who back both his combative tone and his promise to curb the flow of immigrants into the country. The impeachments and federal and state investigations are proof of Trump's claims that he has been unfairly targeted by a "deep state" of federal bureaucrats and law enforcement personnel.
In June, three of the Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of abortion rights were nominated by Trump. The federal tax code was restructured.
After defeating a lot of Republican candidates in the primaries, Donald Trump made the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server a top priority. He scored an upset in the presidential election.
After seven years, it is Trump who is facing criminal investigations. A civil lawsuit in New York over his company's finances; another state-level probe in Georgia over his attempts to overturn his election loss there; and a federal probe of the top- secret documents he took with him to Mar-a-Lago, his home in Florida, are included
The former president didn't talk about the legal challenges during his speech. He framed those efforts as being political.
He said that he was a victim of the inquiry.
The obstacles Trump faces when it comes to winning a second term are not limited to defeating any Republican primary challengers. A draft of a bill that would bar Trump from holding office again under the U.S. Constitution was circulating before he spoke to his supporters.
Those who have engaged in insurrection can't hold office.
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