Trump on September 11 teases the 2024 race

This year, former President Trump has repeatedly flirted with a new presidential bid in 2024 in an attempt to return to the White House. And he did it again this weekend during a stop at a New York City police station and nearby fire station in midtown Manhattan as he paid tribute to first responders on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11.

When asked by a police officer if he plans to make his comeback in 2024, or maybe run for mayor of New York, Trump replied “that’s a tough question.”

But then he said “Actually, for me that’s an easy question. I mean, I know what I’m going to do, but I’m not supposed to talk about it yet from a campaign finance law perspective, which, frankly, are ridiculous. “

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And the former president, as he has said several times before this year about his potential campaign decision, added that “I think you are going to be happy.”

As political leaders across the country used the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 Americans to deliver a message of unity, Trump released a video and statement early Saturday that criticized the management by President Biden of the rocky US withdrawal and evacuation from Afghanistan amid the lightning-fast takeover of the Central Asian country torn apart by repressive Taliban forces. Trump’s White House successor has been accused by Republicans and some Democrats of underestimating the Taliban and overestimating the strength of the now collapsed and US-backed Afghan government and military.

While stopped at the police station, not far from Trump Tower, the former president accused Biden of “gross incompetence” for his handling of the US exit from Afghanistan, which was originally triggered. by a deal that then President Trump made with the Taliban.

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Hours before Trump’s visit to the compound, Biden was joined by former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in the traditional, grim name-reading ceremony at the site of the collapsed Twin Towers of those killed on September 11 2001. Former Republican President George W Bush, in office at the time of the horrific attacks, spoke Saturday at a memorial service near Shanksville, Pa., Where one of four airliners hijacked by terrorists Al Qaeda crashed after passengers battled terrorists.

Trump spokeswoman Liz Harrington said the former president “had the option of attending” the ceremony in downtown New York “but decided to honor the day with various stops.”

Earlier today, the former president virtually addressed “Let’s Worship,” an evangelistic event held on the National Mall in the nation’s capital.

And later, the native New Yorker traveled to his home state to comment on a pay-per-view boxing match in Hollywood, Florida.

Republicans divided over Trump’s 2024 victory: poll

While poll after poll indicates that most Republicans want Trump to remain at the helm of the GOP and would back him for their party’s nomination if he runs again in 2024, a new poll suggests they are divided on the issue. whether Trump would take over the White House if he launched another campaign.

Fifty-one percent of Republicans and leading GOP independents polled in a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS said they had a better chance of winning the White House in the 2024 election if Trump was the party’s candidate. But 49% said the party would be better off with someone else as the GOP flag bearer in the next presidential election.

The survey, conducted online and by phone from August 3 to September 3. 7, also highlighted an educational divide, with 69% of Republicans without a college degree – but only 49% with a college degree – saying Trump should remain at the helm of the GOP.

Christie at Reagan Library Prescribes GOP Bitter Pill to Swallow

Former New Jersey GOP Governor Chris Christie targeted his own party last week, urging Republicans to discredit extremists and conspiracy theorists within their ranks if they are to compete with Democrats in the future.

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And Christie, who unsuccessfully ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 and flirted with a possible second run in 2024, called on her party to “face the realities of the 2020 election and learn, not hide it, “while targeting Trump – his former ally – without naming the former president.

Christie made his comments Thursday night at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif., As the two-term former Garden State governor became the last Republican leader to influence the GOP’s future in a series of lectures titled “A Time to Choose.”

Since his 2020 loss to Biden, Trump has repeatedly fed his supporters of a steady diet with unsubstantiated claims that the election was “stolen” amid “massive” electoral fraud. Trump refused to concede the election, but dozens of court challenges by the then president and his allies were shot down, and then Attorney General William Barr said in December that the Department of Justice Justice had not seen fraud on a scale that could tip over. the election.

“We need to stop wasting our time, energy and credibility on claims that will never convince anyone of anything,” Christie said in her speech. “Pretending to have won when we have lost is a waste of time, energy and credibility.”

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And Christie also pointed out that “we have to give up on conspiracy theorists and deniers of the truth. Those who know best and those who are just plain crazy.”

The former governor also used part of his speech to criticize Biden and the president’s policies.

DeSantis says 2024 speculation is ‘fabricated’

Political experts see Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate.

DeSantis – a conservative congressman who was narrowly elected governor of Florida in 2018 with Trump’s backing – has seen his popularity rise among Republican voters in his state and country over the past year and a half, in great shape. part thanks to its combative resistance against COVID restrictions amid the coronavirus pandemic. And that fueled speculation about likely national ambitions, as support for the governor surged among Republicans at the start of the 2024 polls.

But last week DeSantis, who is running for re-election next year in Florida, aimed at such a speech.

“All speculation about me is purely fabricated,” DeSantis accused at a press conference Tuesday in St. Cloud, Florida. “I’m just doing my job and we’re working hard… I hear all of these things and honestly, it’s nonsense.”

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But DeSantis has made stops across the country this year as part of its fundraising campaign. And on Sunday, the governor joins two other potential Republican White House candidates for 2024 – former Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas – headlining a GOP event in Nebraska. The three will celebrate farming by speaking at Nebraska Governor Pete Rickett’s annual fried steak.

Pence sat down for a rare national television interview on Friday, on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends”.