Former US President Donald Trump in his first speech since he left office has called for Republican Party unity while indicating that he might launch a third presidential attempt in 2024.
Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Committee in Orlando, Florida on Sunday, Trump slammed the Biden administration, claiming that the country has gone from America First to America Last” in just one month.
Giving enough indications that he will run for presidential elections for 2014, the former president said, “We will take back the House. We will win the Senate and then a Republican president would triumph over the White House. I wonder who that will be.”
Eliminating the formation of a new party, Trump said that it would split votes of the conservatives and called on his supporters to unite for defeating the ruling democrats in the 2022 mid-term polls. Several Republican leaders, including his top critic Senator Mitt Romney, have vouched for Trump in his presidential proposition if he wins the 2024 Republican party primary. Romney believes Trump will win the party’s primary if he runs for president again.
Opinion polls have revealed that Trump, being the first US President to be impeached twice, is extremely popular amongst the Republican party members and supporters, way ahead of others.
In his 90 minute speech, Trump tried attracting support for himself by repeatedly attacking the Democrats and President Joe Biden.
“We will persist and we will prevail. We are tougher than they (Democrats) are. We are stronger than they are. Together in the coming years, we will carry forward the torch of American liberty,” he said.
He alleged that Biden’s policies are taking America towards socialism and pledged not to let that happen. He further claimed Bide’s administration was “anti-jobs, anti-family, anti-borders, anti-energy, anti-women and anti-science”.
Trump added, “We all knew that the Biden administration was going to be bad, but none of us even imagined just how bad it would be and how far Left they would go. In just one short month, we have gone from ‘America First’ to America Last’.”
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Praising his achievements when he was in office, Trump stated that he handed the administration to Biden with a modern-day medical miracle in terms of vaccines for COVID-19. I pushed the FDA to make them work, he asserted.
Accusing Biden of opening up borders for illegal immigrants, Trump said he believes in strong enforcement of law and strong borders.
Reiterating his allegation that there was serious electoral fraud in November 2020 presidential elections and claimed that he had won the polls. The poll officials and Congress, however, have confirmed that the election’s results favoured Biden.
Trump’s allegations of electoral malpractice have been dismissed by US courts, including the Supreme Court.