Former US President Donald Trump has recently hinted several times that he will run for the 2024 presidential election.
Former President of the United States Donald Trump arrived Tuesday in Washington for the first time since his presidency ended about a year and a half ago.
Trump is currently speaking at a seminar organized by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, just about a mile from the White House.
AFPI is a think tank founded by Trump’s former advisers that promotes Trumpian policies in the nation’s capital.
Director of AFPI Brooke Rollins described Trump’s speech as “much like the Fifth State of the Nation Address”, referring to the annual speech given by the US president.
Some of Trump’s close circle told the news channel CNN that they hope Trump will focus on politics in his speech and talk about the agenda pushed by the Republicans as the midterm elections approach in a little more than three months.
In the midterm elections on November 8, members of the House of Representatives and a third of the country’s senators will be voted into the federal congress. In addition, numerous elections are held at the state level, for example for the positions of governors.
The Republicans have a good chance of winning back the majority in the House of Representatives and possibly also in the Senate in the midterm elections, as the President Joe Biden support is low and the party of the sitting president often experiences defeat in midterm elections.
However, since leaving the White House, former President Trump has focused primarily on talking about his lie that the previous presidential election was rigged against him.
Trump’s involvement in the congressional attack in Epiphany 2021 has recently been clarified in public congressional hearings, in which they wanted to show the people with substantial evidence that Trump systematically tried to prevent a democratic change of power after losing the presidential election.
In recent months, Trump has hinted several times about his willingness to run for president in the 2024 presidential election, but his close circle is said to have urged the former president to wait to announce his candidacy at least after the midterm elections.
Will Trump’s grip on the Republicans hold?
Recently, Trump’s grip on the Republican Party has been under cautious suspicion, when, for example, in the recent The New York Times (you are moving to another service) -magazine’s poll, more than half of Republicans answered that they would currently vote for a candidate other than Trump as the party’s presidential candidate in 2024.
However, Trump is still the clear leader in the polls. Only the governor of Florida Ron DeSantis in addition to Trump, has reached double-digit numbers in the party’s internal support polls.
Events in the style of campaign speeches tell that Trump wants to stay in the spotlight and does not want to give up his place as the leading figure of the Republicans.
Trump’s former vice president Mike Pence is also scheduled to speak Tuesday in Washington, D.C., when he attends an event for the conservative Young America’s Foundation near the AFPI seminar.
Pence has recently spoken out more and more against Trump and called on the party to put the 2020 election behind it, which has raised expectations that Pence is willing to run for president himself in the 2024 election.
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