Trump takes another stab at the White House | Abroad

He also officially reported to the electoral council on Tuesday (local time). After months of hints, the man who was almost impeached twice and tried to stay on the plush after losing elections is really going to make another shot at the White House.

Trump kicked off with an hour-long speech in which he painted a rosy picture of his four years as president, during which the economy was mostly doing well. “We were a great and glorious nation under our leadership,” Trump said of his administration. “But now we are a nation in decline. We are a failing nation.”

He painted a dark picture of a country that would collapse from high gasoline prices, immigration and crime, similar to the speeches he gave in 2016 and 2020. As in those previous campaigns, he portrays himself as the man who will save the Americans. In recent months he has complained a lot about alleged fraud in the presidential elections that he lost, but remarkably enough he has now dropped that subject. “America’s comeback starts now.”

It’s an unusually early start. His advisers still advise against it, because it is a very bad time. The party should be able to target a runoff in the Georgia state senate election next month. The name Trump scares off floating voters, Republicans have noticed.

Moreover, the former president is weaker than ever. Candidates from his stable performed so disappointingly in the Congressional elections last week that there are now plenty of calls in the American right to end the Trump era definitively and to steer a new course.

But he had been eager to campaign again for months and promised a big announcement just before the disappointing round of elections. Blowing it off again would be a failure. Trump, as always, goes on the offensive when pressed on the defensive. He is the subject of multiple criminal investigations, and a run for the presidency will make it more difficult for justice to prosecute him, he knows.

But success is by no means guaranteed. All things considered, party members are now saying aloud, Trump has lost a series of elections in a row. He became president in 2016, but received a minority of the vote. His party then lost ground in the 2018 Congressional elections under his leadership, he lost the 2020 presidential election, and last week the protégés he campaigned for lost again.

Primaries are coming up first. Ultimately, Americans registered as Republican voters determine their party’s nominee. Loyal party tigers mainly vote in such primaries, and in those circles extremes often do well – Trump also emerged in the run-up to 2016. However, in very early polls – which say little about the final result – Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis is more popular than Trump.