Campaign 2024: Trump is scheduled to make a long-awaited announcement Tuesday night of a presidential comeback bid.
Mar-a-Lago announcement after midterm setbacks unwelcome for many Republicans, could set up rematch with Biden.
“We are a nation in decline,” he told cheering backers at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “In order to make America great and glorious again I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine would “never have happened if I were your president,” he said during a speech that lasted over an hour. “The past two years under Joe Biden have been a time of pain, hardship, anxiety and despair. … Our country is being destroyed before your very eyes. … America’s comeback starts right now.”
The GOP’s failures, in turn, cast a pall over Trump’s campaign launch, instead of the triumphant victory lap he’d expected heading into the midterms. Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s 2016 campaign manager and senior White House adviser, told reporters in Washington this month that Trump considers himself the GOP’s best chance to keep Biden from a second term and he’s “sad and disappointed and frustrated” at the direction of the country since he left office.
Trump’s own vice president, Mike Pence — whose security detail at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, feared they wouldn’t survive the riot — issued a scathing, if understated, critique of a comeback bid: “That’s up to the American people. But I think we’ll have better choices,” he said in an interview with ABC’s David Muir released on Tuesday.
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