Former President Donald Trump on Saturday promised to return to the White House in 2024.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks to the crowd during a rally at the Florence Regional Airport on March 12, 2022, in Florence, South Carolina where he vowed to get back into the White House in 2024.
Trump said at the American Freedom Tour rally: “In 2024, we are going to take back our beautiful White House”. He again falsely claimed that he had won the 2020 presidential election.
Trump revealed: “With the support of everyone in this room, we will take back the House, we will take back the Senate and we will take back our country.”
“And then most importantly in 2024, we are going to take back our beautiful White House. You had a president that always put America first,” Trump said, adding “I will be back and we will be better and stronger than ever before.”
The Republican leader told NBC’s Meet the Press that the House investigating committee is considering whether to recommend criminal punishment for the “kind of supreme dereliction of duty that you saw with President Trump.”
Trump said on a Fox Business appearance: “I think if I run, I’ll get it, look, I have a 94, 95 percent, even in the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference), I had a 98 percent approval rating, so, if I decide to run, I’ll get it very easily, most people have said if I run, they won’t run against me so I think that’s good”.
Since losing the 2020 presidential election, Trump has continued to peddle the false claim that he actually won. He said at the rally: “We won twice. We did much better the second time, and we may have to do it again.”
Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff and a national campaign spokesperson were reportedly involved in efforts to encourage the former president’s supporters to march on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
That’s according to a person who says he overheard a key planning conversation between top Trump officials and the organizers of the January 6 rally on the White House Ellipse and has since testified to House investigators about the phone call.
Trump and his allies have tried to minimize his role in calling his supporters to the Capitol and argue he was simply participating in a lawful, peaceful demonstration.
Trump hasn’t announced a formal run for the 2024 election yet, but he’s been teasing a potential bid since at least Biden’s inauguration. Biden has said concretely that he plans to run for re-election in 2024.
Joe Biden became president-elect on November 7 after winning Pennsylvania. His running mate, Kamala Harris, made history as the first woman and first Black and South Asian American elected vice president.
The coronavirus pandemic and devastating economic fallout are two major issues impacting the election voters’ assessment of which candidate is best suited to handle and combat the crisis.