This is called having the meaning of the ad. This Tuesday evening – at night, in France – former US President Donald Trump officially announced that he would try again to run for the US presidency in 2024. This is his third candidacy for the highest office of the States. -United. “I am announcing my candidacy for the presidential election,” declared the 76-year-old former president, to thunderous applause from his activists.
The American billionaire, who served a first term from 2016 to 2020, had summoned journalists and supporters to his luxurious residence in Mar-a-Lago (Florida). The same that had been searched by the FBI in August, the authorities being in search of classified documents still in the possession of the former president.
In his pugnacious speech, lasting just over an hour, promising an America “back”, Donald Trump widely castigated the current president, Joe Biden, who “embodies the failures of the left and corruption in Washington”. The latter reacted strongly to this candidacy announcement, believing that the Republican billionaire had “let America down”.
Not the expected results at midterms
Donald Trump has been raising expectations for weeks. He had thus promised, with this speech, the speech “the most important in the history of the United States”. But the announcement did not come in an ideal context. Because the Republicans hoped to obtain a real surge in the midterm elections which took place last Tuesday. However, according to the results – still not final – they only got a narrow lead in the House of Representatives and the Democrats kept the majority in the Senate.
Worse, several of the candidates dubbed by Donald Trump were not elected. But the former president nevertheless maintained his announcement. And if several voices begin to rise for the Republican Party to be represented by another champion, the polls still give the billionaire as the winner of the future primary of his party.
Coming to power in November 2016 in an unprecedented political scenario that almost none had predicted, Donald Trump had flouted all customs during his presidency. He had left Washington in chaos after failing to seek re-election against Joe Biden – a defeat he never acknowledged.
However, his ambition could be hampered by justice. Because the former president is targeted by several investigations, in particular on the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, but also his management of the archives of the White House.