- The 76-year-old former president promises to "restore glory to a country in decline."
- The announcement comes as his aspiring rival in the primaries is growing up: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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| Trump announces that he will again be a candidate for the presidency of the United States |
Trump announces that he will again be a candidate for the presidency of the United States
Donald Trump confirmed this Tuesday what was already an open secret: he wants to be the Republican candidate for the 2024 elections. He has done so in a long-awaited appearance from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, where he has announced his intention to compete in the next elections to restore "glory" to a country "in decline" and "invaded" by millions of people from other places.
And he has done so in a difficult context for his party, after some poor results —especially in comparison with the polls— in the mid-term elections that were held last week. The former president, in any case, has evaded any responsibility for these data in recent days.
"I am announcing tonight my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States," Trump stressed this Tuesday after having emphatically reviewed the achievements of his Presidency (2017-2021) and outlined a dark panorama of the two years that Joe Biden has been president. , even with more exaggerated adjectives.
Trump, 76, assured that he will prevent Biden from receiving four years in the White House in 2024 because "the country cannot have more of that" and assured that he will get more votes than in the 2016 elections.
Accompanied by his wife, Melania, and a large group of guests, Trump assured that his campaign will be that of the people and will be based on "issues, values, and success." "This is not just a campaign, this is a cause to save our country," he said, before calling on "all patriots to get on board." "I'm going to be your voice," he stressed surrounded by American flags and amid shouts and cheers from those gathered in the Mar-a-Lago ballroom.
Mexico and Latinos
On this occasion, unlike when he announced his candidacy for 2016 in 2015 in New York, in his speech he praised Latinos, whom he said are "entrepreneurial and good people who are concerned about security and the economy" like him.
Trump praised the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who he said is "a gentleman" when he promised to restore security to the border with that country and expel foreign criminals who enter the country freely for the lack of action against them. "Those criminals kill 2,000 Americans a year," he said.
On the other hand, the former president accused Biden of having "destroyed the economy" of the United States and assured that if the four years of his term are completed "it will be even worse", but he promised that if he comes to power he will stop inflation, recover the "energy independence" and will take other steps to make America "even greater" again and stop being "on its knees" and "in decline" as it is said to be now.
Looking back over the years of his Presidency, he said that the world was at peace and the people prospered, and he reiterated his assertion that if he had been in the Presidency, the war in Ukraine would not have happened.
There was also no shortage of allusions to his problems with the law. "I am a victim," he said, and predicted that he and those who follow him will be "persecuted" but will not be intimidated and in the end "will win."
Complicated moment
The announcement comes at a difficult time for Trump, who has had an important competitor: the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who has just renewed his term with a landslide victory and is signing up for the race in two years. The tycoon, in fact, has already started his machinery of ridicule and criticism. He calls him "Ron DeSanturrón" and he is clear that he can win a primary. "I really think he could be seriously hurt. I would tell you things about him that would not be very flattering, I know more about him than anyone, more than maybe his wife," he said when asked about him.
In this context, more and more voices within the Republican Party believe that Trump adds more than subtracts, with the midterms as an example: the candidates promoted by the former tenant of the White House repeated their arguments, without the depth of the program, and ended up weighed down for extremism that was not rewarded at the polls. Instead, Trump does not see himself as guilty of anything. "If they win it will be thanks to me; if they lose I will have no responsibility," he said in an interview before the elections.
With his commitment to 2024, Donald Trump returns to the race for the most important position in the United States. He needs to win a primary that is not as favored as it seems, but if he manages to be a candidate it would be his third election. In 2016, he beat Hillary Clinton against the odds, and four years later, in 2020, in a scenario marked by his mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic, he lost to Joe Biden. Then he spoke of fixing the elections and did not stop the assault on the Capitol in January 2021, an image that still marks him today. He could only, in any case, sit one more legislature in the Oval Office.
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