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TRUMP REPEATS ELECTION LIE, DECLARES SELF AS ‘FUTURE OF GOP’
- By The Financial District
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min read
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday hinted at a possible run for president again in 2024, attacked President Joe Biden, and repeated his fraudulent claims that he won the 2020 election in his first major appearance since leaving the White House nearly six weeks ago, Steve Holland and Jarrett Renshaw reported for Reuters.
“Our movement of proud, hard-working American patriots is just getting started, and in the end we will win. We will win,” Trump said in a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida.
Refusing to admit the reality that he was trounced in the Nov. 3 presidential election to Joe Biden, Trump offered a withering critique of his Democratic successor’s first weeks in office and suggested he might run again.
“They just lost the White House,” the Republican former president said after criticizing Biden’s handling of border security.
“But who knows, who knows, I may even decide to beat them for a third time.”
Trump’s tumultuous final weeks in office saw his supporters launch a deadly attack on the US Capitol on Jan. 6 in an attempt to block Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory, a win that Trump falsely claimed was tainted by widespread fraud.
A civil war has erupted within the Republican Party with establishment figures such as Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell eager to put Trump in the rearview mirror and others, like Trump ally Senator Lindsey Graham, believing the party’s future depends on the energy of the pro-Trump conservative base.
Trump declared the Republican Party is united and said he had no plans to try to launch a third party, an idea he has discussed with advisers in the last couple of months.
“We’re not starting new parties. We have the Republican Party. It’s going to be united and be stronger than ever before. I am not starting a new party,” he said.
The results of a straw poll of CPAC conference participants gave Trump a strong show of support with 55% saying they would vote for him in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race. It was the lowest polling for Trump within the GOP, which has suffered hundreds of thousands of resignations. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came in second place with 21%.
