Former President Trump led a rally in Florence, Arizona.
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It has not yet officially launched its campaign by 2024, but At his rally in Arizona, former President Donald Trump sounded like he was already in that mood and reinforced his criticism of President Joe Biden., promising a “red wave” in the midterm elections next November.
“A great red wave will start right here in Arizona”Trump said. “This is the year we take back the House, this is the year we take back the Senate, and this is the year we take back America.”
According to a report by the Daily Mail, the former president has raised $115 million for his campaign, which he has not officially launched, but at his event in Florence, Arizona, he spoke again of his convening power.
“I competed twice and we won twice,” he said, assuming as true the false result he claims he had in 2020 with his fraud theories. “This crowd is a massive symbol of what happened, because people are hungry for the truth. They want to get their country back.”
The Republican has important support among the voters of his party, since 54 percent support his possible candidacy in 2024, a far cry from the 11 percent who elected the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, and of the 8 percent that backs the former vice president Mike Pence, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the first published this year.
Trump took advantage of his audience and addressed the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, foreign policy and crime, but with a clear objective: to criticize the Democrats and President Biden.
“They are incompetent, actually,” Trump said, highlighting his Save America slogan. “The country is being destroyed”
The Republican cited the increase in inflation and the withdrawal of the US Army from Afghanistan, as well as the relationship with China and Russia.
“Biden has completely humiliated our nation,” he said, adding that neither China nor Russia “respect” or “fear” the US.
He called the COVID-19 response a disaster, criticizing vaccine mandates — recently blocked by the Supreme Court — and testing shortages, even though the Biden Administration has a plan for more than $1 billion to distribute for free.
“I am proud to have been the anti-mandate president,” Trump said, although during his term the pandemic hit the country mercilessly. “We gave Biden every tool he could want.”
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The former president also criticized this Saturday the investigation of the House of Representatives for the insurrection of January 6, 2021 by his followers.
Arizona was one of the entities where Trump lost to Biden in 2020, where even the Republican Party ordered an audit of the results in Maricopa County, but whose result not only threw out fraud theories, but also found more votes for the democrat
But nevertheless, Trump reaffirmed that the election was “stolen” from him in Arizona. No legal certification seems sufficient to him.
“I love Arizona. We had a tremendous victory in Arizona that was taken from us,” he said.
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Eddie is an Australian news reporter with over 9 years in the industry and has published on Forbes and tech crunch.