Trump Makes His 2024 Run Official, Defies Calls to Move On
November 16, 2022
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as posted by the channelDonald Trump entered the 2024 US presidential race on Tuesday, making official what he’s been teasing for months just as many Republicans are preparing to move away from their longtime standard-bearer.
Minutes before an event to announce his candidacy, Trump’s campaign filed federal paperwork that he’s running again. He’s the first major contender from either party to formally declare.
“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump, 76, said in a gilded ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
The timing could not be worse for Republicans. Candidates endorsed by Trump floundered in key races in last week’s mid-term elections, as voters rejected election-deniers and others with extreme positions on social issues like abortion rights and education.
That cost Republicans their chance to reclaim the US Senate and left them short of the significant majority they had hoped to win in the House, though they were within one seat of gaining control as the former president spoke.
Since then, Trump has tumbled from virtually unquestioned party leader, whose endorsement carried enormous symbolic importance for down-ballot candidates, to an anchor dragging down the GOP. Many key Republicans and donors now want him to make way for a new standard-bearer like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was reelected in a landslide last week.
He complained -- as he often does in his rallies -- about what he sees as America’s decline without him at the helm and said: “We are here tonight to declare it does not have to be this way.”
He also squarely took aim at President Joe Biden’s biggest vulnerabilities: inflation and energy prices.
“We will immediately tackle inflation and bring it down to a level where it was,” Trump said. “Remember, economic security is national security.”
The fastest inflation in 40 years looms large in a Biden economic record that has, by some measures, outperformed Trump’s. US manufacturing jobs totaled 12.9 million last month, the most since 2008, part of a broader labor-market comeback that pushed employment past pre-pandemic levels. Retail gasoline prices, while still elevated, are off 25% from their high in June.
Biden has said he intends to seek re-election in 2024, but he has yet to make a formal announcement. Yet he tweeted during Trump’s speech, “Donald Trump failed America.”
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