Banned from social networks but still as influential among Republicans, Donald Trump finds Saturday evening an audience won over for his first speech in months, flirting more than ever with a new candidacy for the American presidential election of 2024. The former president has found his taste for overbidding to announce this speech before the convention of the Republicans of North Carolina, a state which voted twice for him in 2016 and 2020: "
It seems that the places will be full, all records broken!"
", He wrote in a statement on Friday.
It is sold out, with some 1,250 tickets sold according to the organizers, that this event will take place in Greenville, in the southeast of the United States.
Much less than the thousands who flocked to his famous campaign rallies, but expectations remain high for his first major public speech since February.
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If he has not officially announced it, the 74-year-old billionaire openly cares about the idea of a new candidacy in November 2024. And all his statements are scrutinized. Still very popular with Republican voters, he is admittedly deprived of social networks but he is far from being silent. Posing as the maker of kings, Donald Trump distributes, through daily press releases, his electoral support to candidates of his party ... and his vitriolic criticisms of his enemies. Few Republicans have dared to break with him, despite the violent assault on Capitol Hill by his supporters on January 6 and his unfounded allegations of massive electoral fraud during the November 2020 presidential election.Because many still see it as a valuable asset for the campaign for the parliamentary elections of the “midterms” of November 2022, during which the Republicans hope to regain control of Congress. An unprecedented influence for an American president who was defeated after a single term. This tribune could also resume in the coming months the major electoral meetings that he is so fond of.
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For many Republicans, the “midterm” campaign message should center on criticism of the policies pursued by his Democratic successor Joe Biden.
But Donald Trump does not seem ready to let go of his theory, yet repeatedly dismantled by the courts, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
And he will undoubtedly come back to the subject on Saturday evening.
He also planned to criticize, according to the
New York Times
, White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration.
Almost five months after leaving the presidency, now based in his Bedminster golf club, near New York, the billionaire has still not explicitly acknowledged his defeat. And see you back in the Oval Office.