2024-01-07 09:34:14
Former US President Donald Trump launched the electoral campaign in Iowa this Saturday with two rallies in which he promised to win “for the third time”, just three years after his supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington.
First modification: 01/07/2024 – 08:34
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The small central-western state will hold electoral assemblies on Monday, January 15, which will begin the Republican primaries towards the November 2024 elections, which now have their greatest weight in half a century.
The Republican leader, who dreams of being re-elected in November and returning to the White House on January 20, 2025 despite facing four criminal cases, will face voters in eight days for the first time since his tempestuous departure from the presidency in 2021.
In a rambling two-hour speech to supporters in Newton on Saturday, Trump did not delve into the events of January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed Congress fueled by his false claims of election fraud, but He described those imprisoned as “hostages” for their participation in the events. He promised that, if he is elected, he will pardon many.
Trump mocked Democratic President Joe Biden, his most likely rival in the November election, and said the president has been responsible for the country’s economic decline and has fueled chaos at the borders, while failing to stop the invasion. Russian from Ukraine. “I would have absolutely stopped Putin,” he said. Trump warned of a Third World War if Biden is re-elected, adding: “This is our last chance to save America.” Never having given up on the narrative that he won the 2020 election, Trump declared that in November he will win “for the third time.”
The overwhelming leader in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Trump was impeached for inciting the insurrection and faces multiple felony charges for his conduct before and during that episode. In a second appearance Saturday night at a Clinton high school, Trump gave another speech in which he attacked Biden for being too old to govern, “incompetent” and leading America to ruin. “We are a failing nation,” he said in his hour-long speech. “Let’s get her out of hell.” Meanwhile, Biden, who harshly criticized Trump in a speech on Friday, has no public events planned this weekend, according to the White House.
– Support in surveys –
Despite his legal setbacks in court and the risk of going to prison for his attempts to reverse the results of the November 2020 presidential elections, polls attribute Trump with 60% of the vote in the Republican race compared to his main candidates. opponents, the former US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley and the governor of the state of Florida, RonDeSantis.
But the attack on the headquarters of Congress three years ago remains an issue of deep division: a quarter of American voters and 44% of Trump voters think, without evidence, that the federal law enforcement agency (FBI) is in charge. origin of incident, according to a joint survey conducted by The Washington Post and the University of Maryland.
This Saturday, MSNBC published a chilling new video from January 6 in which two Republican lawmakers are seen speaking to protesters at the Capitol, who are yelling and mocking them through the broken windows of the House doors. of Representatives. Agents point weapons at the mob that tries to break into the chamber.
– 1,200 arrests –
This same Saturday, the FBI announced the arrest in Florida (southeast) of three people for their participation in those incidents that left four dead. In 35 months of extensive investigation – still ongoing – authorities have charged more than 1,200 people and more than half were convicted.
“Trump and his MAGA supporters not only tolerate political violence, they laugh at it,” Biden lamented on Friday. But Trump denies having incited his followers to attack the Capitol, although he still believes that the 2020 elections were “stolen” from him. To determine the responsibility and pressure he would have exerted to try to reverse the electoral results, a trial must begin on March 4 prison in Washington.
It will be on the eve of one of the most important deadlines of the Republican primaries: “Super Tuesday” in fifteen states: Texas, California, Colorado and Maine among others. Those last two states declared him ineligible for the presidency in December, assigning him responsibility for the actions of January 2021. The Supreme Court took up this matter on Friday, although, pending a decision in February, Trump’s name remains in the voting lists for the Republican primaries.
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