Trump Announces Controversial Run for Presidency. Voters Look Ahead to November 2024.
by Kevin Seraaj, OrlandoAdvocate.com
Former President Donald Trump wants back into the White House. Badly. Since his still unaccepted defeat in 2020, Trump has been making clear his intention to re-rally his troops.
After making his run for office official by formally filing his paperwork with the Federal Election Committee on November 15, Trump announced his candidacy at his waterfront estate in Florida, Mar-a-Lago later that day. He told reporters and a crowd of his stalwart supporters that his platform will be about “issues, vision, and successes.”
“In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States,” Trump told the crowd.
During his roughly hour-long speech, Trump talked about his wins, Democrat defeats, a struggling economy under Biden’s watch, and repeated his claim that his 2020 election defeat to President Joe Biden was “rigged.”
In describing how his second potential go-round in office would fix the mistakes he accused Biden of making, Trump said Republicans cannot nominate “a politician or conventional candidate” if they want to win in 2024.
“This will not be my campaign, this will be our campaign all together,” Trump said in his speech. “Anyone who truly seeks to take on this rigged and corrupt system will be faced with a storm of fire that only a few could understand.”
He told the crowd that he “didn’t need this,” referring to the burden of weight of the presidency, and suggesting the company needs him to be preident more than he needs to be.
“I had a nice easy life,” he said before running for president adding that it’s about his love for the country and it’s time to “save our country.”
An increasing number of Repuboican leaders disagree, however.
In a Yahoo! News report Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) said afterward that Trump needs to step down for good.
“If we want to start winning, we need someone else on the mound. And we’ve got a very strong bench that can come out,” Romney said comparing Trump’s run to that of a lackluster sports figure. “I know, there’s some fans that love him. Just like, you know, an aging pitcher, there are always fans that want to keep them there forever. But if you keep losing games, try to put some new players on the field.”
Trump is one of the most polarizing political figures in recent history.
Even Ivanka Trump, the former president’s daughter, has bowed out.
“While I will always love and support my father,” she said on Instagram, “going forward I will do so outside the political arena.”
