Trump News 2024 candidacy that challenges him

Donald Trump is running for the White House again for the 2024 election. The announcement came a week after midterm elections that rejected Republican House and Senate candidates loyal to the former president.

The former US commander-in-chief summoned the press to his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The announcement of the renomination took place in front of a forest of star-spangled flags. For Trump, President Joe Biden, who defeated him in 2020, represents the “decline” and “humiliation” of the nation. This contrasts with his presidency when, he said, the country was “at peace, prosperous and internationally respected”. Indeed, with the “opportunity” of the missile that fell in Poland, Donald Trump took the opportunity to make a comparison with the current American administration.

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With “me” it would “never have happened, and even the Democrats admit it,” Trump said. Then the frontal attack on Biden. “Today a missile was probably sent from Russia, 15 miles inside the Polish border. People have gone mad and angry and we have a president who falls asleep at international summits and whose laughs. This brings us to the brink of nuclear war. As is known, a few hours later it turned out that the missile that fell in Poland was probably an anti-aircraft rocket of the Ukrainian army.

Trump, attack on Biden

“I assure you Joe Biden will not be four yet,” Trump said. “It won’t be my campaign, it will be your campaign,” he assured his supporters. And he promised the return of his movement “MAGA” (Make America Great Again). Trump also revived his other old slogan: “America first”. As well as the image of a new “golden age”. He then bragged about the alleged successes of his presidency, glossing over the chaos of the pandemic and ignoring his ‘big lie’ about the election – that Biden stole it – that culminated in the assault on Congress. January 6, 2021. And Joe Biden? He responded from the G20 in Bali with a tweet of few words: “Donald Trump betrayed America”.

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Problems with Murdoch and DeSantis

But in reality, Trump now has the biggest problems in “his” Republican Party. Especially after the bitter disappointments of the candidates closest to him during the midterm elections on November 8th. Shortly before the expected announcement of his renomination, the former president had been attacked by his main potential rival, Ron DeSantis, the re-elected governor of Florida. Without naming Trump, DeSantis had underlined “a very disappointing performance (at Midterm, editor’s note), especially given that Biden’s policies are very unpopular” and that “the independents did not vote for our candidates”. Added to this is Rupert Murdoch, editor of Fox News, one of the television channels closest to conservative positions. Murdoch, says the Guardian, warned Trump that his media empire would not support any of his attempts to return to the White House. In recent days, his publications, including Fox News, had accused the mogul of the Republican flop in the midterm vote.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Photo Ansa/Epa Cristobal Herrera