Trump launches bid for reelection for 2020 with the vow to "keep America beautiful"

President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his 2020 re-election campaign on Tuesday in the same way that he came to power in 2016: a raucous nationalist rally raised fears of illegal immigration and was committed to fighting for blue-collar workers.

Striking his Democratic opponents as radical leftists fueled by "hatred" and eager to "tear your country apart," Trump promised an "earthquake at the polls" next year.

"We did it once and we will do it again," he promised some 20,000 ecstatic supporters in Orlando, Florida.

"And that's why I'm here tonight to officially launch my campaign for a second term as President of the United States."

In his nearly 80-minute speech in the Orlando Arena, Trump did not present any new ideas or plans for the future, where the crowd formed a tide of ball caps. Red baseball of the Trump campaign, chanting "USA" and "Four More Years".

Instead, the unconventional Republican made his re-election speech boasting about economic gains, renewing his long-held wish to build a wall along the Mexican border.

In a speech filled with his usual boastfulness and rhetorical exaggeration, Trump said – but without giving details – that he would monitor the cures for cancer and AIDS and pave the way for the dispatch of 39, American astronauts on Mars.

But the content of his speech was about the grievances and fears of the same white voters of the working clbad and the middle clbad who underlined his surprise victory as a totally inexperienced politician against Hillary Clinton in 2016.

BOOS
Hitting a dark note, Trump repeatedly encouraged the crowd to boo the journalists covering the event, calling them "false news".

Then Trump turned to the Democrats, who he said were "becoming more radical, more dangerous and more out of control than at any time in the modern history of our country."

"They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it," he said. "Not acceptable, it will not happen."

Even though the first digits of the polls show that he is facing a tough race, Trump embarks on a fight backed by this fiercely loyal right base.

Trump – himself accused by opponents of a multitude of serious crimes – told the crowd that they had together formed "a great political movement" that "laid the foundation for an establishment broken and corrupt politics ".

"We will keep America again," said Trump at the crowded arena in Orlando, Florida. "Oh, we will keep it so well."

Supporters spent the day on the sidewalks of downtown Orlando, waiting in tents and on chairs all night to be the first to walk through the door.

"It's a historic event, we would not miss it for anything," said a fan, David Meloney, to AFP.

In 2020, Florida will be one of the key states if Trump wants to defeat the chosen candidate from a group of 23 Democratic candidates.

The most solid map of Trump is the current health of the US economy, which he describes as "the envy of the world".

But Trump said the "American dream" itself was threatened by illegal immigrants, insisting that his project of murmuring the wall of Mexico City would still be realized.

"Mbadive illegal migration is causing millions of low-wage workers to compete for jobs, wages and opportunities against the most vulnerable Americans, cutting their way to the American dream," he said. declared.

DEPORTATION
Strangely, he did not mention his announcement earlier in the day that he was ordering the deportation of "millions of illegal aliens".

The startling threat was announced in a tweet in the morning but was quickly followed by media reports that government officials had no idea what the president was planning.

A few hours before the rally, the president had insisted that officials were actually involved in the project.

"They will start next week," he told reporters at the White House.

After more than two dramatic years at the White House, the fast-paced real estate salesman is betting that Republicans and enough blue-collar centrists will end up in 2020.

But there is no doubt that a long investigation into Trump's troubled relations with Russia and his style of division and bruising left him hurt.

A large number of polls show that Trump is far behind Democratic leader Joe Biden, who is campaigning to promise to bring the country back into what he describes as the quieter and sweeter days of Barack Obama, under which he was Vice Chair.

Another big Democratic candidate, left-wing Senator Bernie Sanders, scorned Trump after the Florida speech.

"Listening to Trump, I really feel that he is a man living in a parallel universe (…) and that he must be defeated," Sanders said.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday showed that Biden led Trump by 50 to 41 percent in Florida, while Sen. Bernie Sanders had a 48 to 42 percent lead over the state president.

Previous polls are of limited value and in 2016, they failed to predict Trump's defeat of Democrat Hillary Clinton. Surveys suggest another bitter race, tight race.

But in a hint of frayed nerves, Trump criticized what he calls a "fake poll," while several US media reported that his campaign had sent back several of his own pollsters.