Former United States President, Donald Trump, on Tuesday night, announced that he will be running for president in 2024.
Trump is aiming to become the only second commander-in-chief ever elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
He announced on Tuesday night that he will seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Surrounded by allies, advisers, and conservative influencers, at Mar-a-Logo ā his waterfront estate in Florida, where his campaign will be headquartered ā Trump delivered a relatively subdued speech, rife with spurious and exaggerated claims about his four years in office.
He laid out an aggressively conservative agenda that includes executing people convicted of selling drugs.
The campaign will be Trump’s third run for president, but his first time trying to win votes since his refusal to accept his 2020 election loss and his frantic effort to hold onto power led to the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on 6 January, 2021.
“We are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation for millions of Americans,” Trump said in a speech at his private Florida club, attacking President Joe Biden’s record in his first two years in office. “I will ensure Joe Biden does not receive four more years.”
Trump filed papers with the Federal Election Commission earlier Tuesday night in which he declared himself a candidate for the presidency and established a new campaign committee.
“This campaign will be about issues, vision and success, and we will not stop, we will not quit, until we’ve achieved the highest goals and made our country greater than it has ever been before,” Trump said.
Trump barely mentioned the 2020 presidential race, nor did he bring up his two separate impeachments trials, the first for leveraging U.S. foreign aid in an effort to extort Ukraine into investigating the Biden family, and the second for his role in the 6 January, attack on the Capitol.
Instead of dwelling on his time in office, Trump’s speech Tuesday echoed his 2016 campaign speeches in many ways, painting a dystopian picture of America as a failing nation ravaged by violent crime during “a time of pain, hardship, anxiety and despair.”
Trump said the “gravest threat to our civilization” was what he called the weaponization of the Justice Department and the FBI, which is currently investigating his handling of classified documents and his role in a massive effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and prevent Congress from certifying Biden’s victory.
He called for a “top-to-bottom overhaul and clean out of the festering rot and corruption of Washington, D.C.”
Trump also said he would demand a sweeping new slate of election restrictions, including requiring only paper ballots, only allowing voters one day to vote, requiring photo ID in order to vote and “all votes counted by election night.”
“I’ll get that job done,” he said. “That’s a very personal job for me. I take that very personally.”