Former President Donald Trump will claim that he is the leader of the Republican Party and his “likely candidate for 2024” when he makes his first public appearance since leaving office at the Conservative Political Action Conference next weekend in Orlando, according to with a report.
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A longtime adviser to Trump told Axios that his CPAC speech will be a “show of strength” and said the message would be: “I may not have Twitter or the Oval Office, but I’m still in charge”. The source would have added that “the return is his main obsession.”
In this archive photo from September 29, 2020, President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump are holding hands on stage after the first presidential debate at Case Western University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. (AP Photo / Julio Cortez, Archive)
Trump’s advisers are supposed to meet with him in Mar-a-Lago this week to plan his next political movements and to establish the framework for reigning in the 2022 mid-term elections.
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According to Axios, Trump must go after the 10 House Republicans who voted to convict him in his impeachment trial, spurred on by the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol, and the seven Republican senators who voted with Democrats to condemnation.
Trump was acquitted, with 57 senators voting for his conviction – less than the required two-thirds majority – and 43 voting against the conviction.
He also plans to argue in the CPAC speech that many of his predictions about President Biden have already come true.
“Trump is effectively the Republican Party,” Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller told Fox News. “The only gulf is between Beltway members and grassroots Republicans across the country. When you attack President Trump, you are attacking Republican bases.”
Trump found support from Republican state officials who censored some members of Congress who voted against him. Meanwhile, his leadership PAC, Save America, has $ 75 million on hand to help define the main challenges for Republicans who were against him, as well as a database of tens of millions of names.
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A Suffolk University / USA Today poll found that 46% of Trump supporters would abandon the Republican Party and join a Trump party if he decided to create one, against 27% who would remain with the Republican Party.
Half of the individuals interviewed said the Republican Party should become “more loyal to Trump”, even if it means losing support from establishment Republicans, against 19% saying the party should become less loyal to Trump and more aligned to Republicans of the establishment.
The poll of 1,000 Trump voters, identified in the 2020 polls, was done by landline and cell phone, Monday through Friday. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Fox News’ Brooke Singman contributed to this report