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Trump Says He Won't Withdraw From 2024 Presidential Race If Impeached

2023-03-05T23:30:09.727Z


Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, former President Donald Trump said he would not withdraw from the 2024 presidential race if he were charged in any of the federal and state investigations he is facing.


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Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he would not withdraw from the 2024 presidential race if he is charged in any of the federal and state investigations he is facing.

“I wouldn't even think about leaving,” Trump told reporters at the CPAC in Maryland, where attendees named him their favorite presidential candidate shortly before he took the stage.

Trump is facing a series of investigations that include several criminal inquiries.

Prosecutors in Fulton County, Georgia, investigate the effort by Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 Georgia election, while the US Department of Justice investigates the attack on the United States Capitol Joined.

on January 6, 2021, as well as Trump's handling of classified material after he left office.

Trump is defiant in the face of the ongoing investigations and this Saturday argued that "they have used justice in our country as a weapon."

Trump refuses to commit to endorsing the 2024 Republican nominee if it isn't him, and also said Saturday he hasn't decided whether to sign the pledge of allegiance that Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel requires of 2024 Republican candidates. to participate in the discussions.

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“There are probably people running that I wouldn't be too happy to endorse, so we'll see.

I think some of them, I won't use names, I don't want to insult anyone, but I wouldn't be very happy with some of them," Trump said.

During his speech at CPAC on Saturday, Trump said Republicans must "change the way we think" about early and mail-in voting after the GOP losses in 2020 and 2022, a dramatic shift after years of falsehoods about those forms of voting riddled with fraud.

Trump said advancing Republicans should try to "beat the Democrats at their own game."

“That means sweeping the left with mail-in ballots, early ballots and Election Day votes,” he said.

What Trump failed to mention: Republicans have long excelled in such tactics.

But he spent years trying to convince conservatives that early and mail-in ballots could not be trusted, giving Democrats a huge advantage that showed in President Joe Biden's 2020 victory and disappointing showing. of the Republicans in last year's midterm elections.

He cited Kari Lake, the Republican who lost the Arizona gubernatorial race.

Printing errors caused delays in parts of Maricopa County on Election Day.

Finally, all the voters' ballots were counted.

Trump — while exaggerating the problems — said some Lake supporters did not wait in longer lines than expected, costing him votes.

“We have to change our thinking, because some bad things happened,” he said.

His comments came during a nearly two-hour speech at CPAC in which he argued he can give conservatives "retribution" against established Democrats and Republicans.

His remarks wrapped up the small CPAC meeting, held at a Maryland convention center on the outskirts of Washington as the 2024 presidential race begins to take shape and several high-profile Republicans prepare their bids to prevent Trump from winning the presidential race. party nomination for a third consecutive cycle.

Trump has said he will steer the Republican Party toward a more isolationist stance, a position that puts him at odds with his former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who has already launched her 2024 bid, and several other potential Republican presidential contenders.

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"We will never go back to a party that wants to give unlimited money to fight endless wars abroad, but demands that we cut veteran's benefits and retirement benefits at home," Trump said.

He claimed that Biden is leading the nation into “oblivion” and that other Republicans could not correct the course.

“I am the only candidate who can make this promise: I will prevent World War III,” Trump said.

He took aim at several specific Republicans and told the CPAC crowd that the GOP "will never go back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove and Jeb Bush," referring to the former House speaker, former adviser to George W. Bush. and the former governor of Florida.

He also criticized Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Utah Senator Mitt Romney over his name.

Trump also suggested — as Biden did in his State of the Union address — that some Republicans have advocated reforms to Social Security and Medicare as part of efforts to cut spending and reform government.

“We will not go back to people who want to destroy our great Social Security system, including some in our own party;

I wonder who they might be, who want to raise the Social Security minimum age to 70, 75 or even 80 in some cases, and who want to cut Medicare to a level that will be unrecognizable,” he said.

Trump is popular at the annual conservative meeting.

He was the first choice of 62% of CPAC attendees who were asked who they preferred as the Republican candidate in 2024. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who did not attend this year's event, finished second with 20% of support.

The poll poll is not a scientific poll and is not representative of the overall Republican electorate, as it is limited to CPAC attendees.

Trump vowed to purge the government of "entrenched political dynasties in both parties."

“In 2016 I declared: I am your voice.

Today I add: I am your warrior.

I am your justice.

And to those who have been wronged and betrayed: I am his retribution,” Trump said.

"I'm not going to let this happen.

… I will totally erase the deep state.

I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces that have armed our justice system like never before.

And I will put the people back in charge of this country.”

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Trump's comments directed at transgender people appeared to draw the biggest cheers on Saturday.

He said he would sign a measure "banning child sexual mutilation in all 50 states" and said it would "keep men out of women's sports."

Trump claimed that the country, as he sees it, "will be lost forever" if he does not prevail in 2024.

“This is the final battle: they know it, I know it, you know it, everyone knows it.

Either they win, or we win.

And I promise you this: If you return me to the White House, your reign will end and America will once again be a free nation," Trump said.

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Source: cnnespanol

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