Trump launches White House bid for 2024 to unseat Biden
Trump launches White House bid for 2024 to unseat Biden with the announcement coming earlier than usual.
Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday night that he will run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024 White House bid.
He hopes to become just the second commander-in-chief to be elected to two non-consecutive terms.
Even in a nation where lengthy presidential campaigns are the norm, Trump’s White House declaration is early and shows that he wants to discourage other potential rivals like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis or his own former vice president, Mike Pence.
Donald Trump started a quest to win the presidency again in 2024 on Tuesday in an effort to fend off potential Republican challengers.
Since losing the 2020 election, Trump has conducted constant attacks on the legitimacy of the US electoral process.
Trump, seeking a potential rematch with Democrat President Joe Biden, made his announcement at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida a week after midterm elections in which Republicans failed to win as many seats in Congress as they had hoped.
“In order to make America great again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump said to a cheering phone-waving crowd of donors and longtime supporters.
Earlier in the day, aides filed paperwork with the US Federal Election Commission setting up a committee called “Donald J. Trump for President 2024.”
For much of the speech, Trump steered clear of the name-calling that marked his recent public appearances, opting instead for a critique of Biden’s presidency and a review of what Trump said were the policy achievements of his own time in office.
“Two years ago we were a great nation and soon we will be a great nation again,” he said.
Trump played an active role in the midterms, recruiting and promoting candidates who echoed his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him through widespread voting fraud.
But many of his candidates in key battleground states lost, prompting some prominent Republicans to openly blame him for promoting weak candidates who derailed the party’s hopes of taking control of the Senate.
Control of the House of Representatives remains up in the air, but Republicans are on track to win a razor-thin majority.
Trump will seek his party’s nomination even as he faces trouble on several fronts, including a criminal investigation into his possession of government documents taken when he left office as well as a congressional subpoena related to his role in January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack by his supporters.
Trump has called the various investigations he faces politically motivated and has denied wrongdoing.
Trump, 76, is seeking to become only the second US president in history to serve non-consecutive terms, after Grover Cleveland, whose second stint ended in 1897.
Biden, 79, said last week he intends to run for re-election and will likely make a final decision by early next year.
In an Edison Research exit poll, seven out of 10 midterm voters expressed the view that Biden, who remains deeply unpopular, should not run again. In the same poll, six of 10 respondents said they had an unfavorable opinion of Trump.
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