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At the conservative CPAC conference in Florida, former President Donald Trump harshly criticized his successor Joe Biden.
Suggest a possible 2024 presidential candidacy: Donald Trump. (February 28, 2021)
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“Who knows, he might decide to beat her a third time,” says the 74-year-old.
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The right-wing populist is not indisputable in his party. However, he still has great support from much of the party and the rank and file.
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In his first speech since the end of his term, the former president of the United States, Donald Trump, harshly criticized his successor Joe Biden and again suggested a possible candidacy in 2024. Biden had the “most catastrophic first month of all presidents” in recent American history, Trump said Sunday at the conservative CPAC conference in Orlando, Florida. The new government is “anti-employment, anti-family, anti-border, anti-energy, anti-women, anti-science.”
Biden is opening the border with neighboring Mexico and allowing countless migrants to enter the country, Trump said in front of conservative politicians and activists. The new president is also leading the country with a “radical” leftist policy toward “socialism” and, ultimately, toward “communism.”
Five and a half weeks after leaving the White House, Trump again hinted at a possible presidential candidacy in 2024. “Who knows, he might decide to hit her a third time,” the 74-year-old said in his hour-and-a-half speech about the democrats.
Trump calls Republicans to unity
Trump still claims to have won the November 3 presidential election. In reality, he clearly lost the election to Biden. In his speech Sunday, Trump repeated his often-refuted allegations of massive voter fraud. It is “impossible” that he lost.
The Republican had already openly flirted with the possibility of running for president again in the past. After his acquittal in the impeachment proceedings for storming the Capitol on January 6, this path is basically open for him.
With his speech at the CPAC conference, Trump made clear his claim to leadership with Republicans and called the party for unity. “We will be united and strong like never before,” said the former president. Contrary to what was reported a few weeks ago, he does not plan to found a new party: “I am not going to start a new party.” At the same time, Trump attacked several critics of the party, especially the MPs who had voted against him in the impeachment process.
55 percent for Trump
Trump’s speech was largely similar to his campaign speeches last year. The Republican claimed to have built the “strongest economy” in world history and to have achieved great success in fighting the crown pandemic. By developing vaccines against the coronavirus, the United States would have “saved large parts of the world,” Trump said.
In the United States, more than 510,000 people have already died as a result of the pandemic, by far the highest number in the world. Critics hold Trump’s crisis management largely responsible for this.
The right-wing populist is not indisputable in his party. However, he still has great support from much of the party and the rank and file. That was also evident in an opinion poll of CPAC conference attendees on who would be the best Republican presidential candidate in the 2024 election.
At 55 percent, Trump came in first by a wide margin. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came in second with 21 percent of the vote. 97 percent of the participants gave Trump a good report card.
Trump 2024: At the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, many want to see the former president run again.
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