US media reports
Mention of running for the next presidential election based on strong support base
Promote the role of kingmaker in the 2022 midterm election
Supreme Court verdicts against Trump
[아시아경제 뉴욕=백종민 특파원] It is reported that former US President Donald Trump will emphasize that he is a 2024 presidential candidate in a public speech on the 28th. It is interpreted as meaning that he will not give up his influence on the Republican Party based on his supporters.
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American media such as Axios reported on the 22nd (local time).Former President Lump said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) scheduled on the 28th that he will refer to himself as “the de facto Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election.”
Former President Trump is looking to maintain his political influence over his supporters and Republicans through his first public event after retirement.
Axios said the speech on the 28th was designed to show that former President Trump is in control of the party whether or not he is running for president in 2024.
President Trump’s staff is the He called the speech’showing off’ and said the message would be “I don’t have Twitter or the presidency, but I’m still responsible.”
Prior to the presidential election, former President Trump also plans to take action to influence the 2022 midterm elections. It is said that his staff will soon meet at a resort in Marrakech, Florida, seeking strategies to turn former President Trump into a’kingmaker’.
Trump’s move is based on the belief that his supporters are unshakable.
According to a poll recently released by USA Today and Suffolk University, 46% of Republicans said they would support former President Trump if he created a new party. Only 27% of respondents said they would remain with the Republican Party.
Former President Trump won 75 million votes, the largest of all Republican candidates in the last presidential election.
Republican lawmakers who approved Trump’s impeachment prosecution are also facing headwinds, with a resolution of distrust passed in local districts.
Unlike the concrete support layer, the blade of the judicial process towards former President Trump is sharpening. US federal The Supreme Court issued an order to dismiss Trump’s request to withhold the ruling of a lower tribunal requesting the delivery of tax data in accordance with a grand jury summons summoned by the New York State Prosecutors’ Office.
In 2019, the District Prosecutor in Manhattan, New York, who has been investigating the allegations of Trump’s sexual scandal, requested that Trump’s accounting firm, Marshall USA, submit tax data for eight years of former President Trump and the Trump group. Trump has been opposed to this. New York prosecutors are also investigating whether Trump’s presidential decree is fraudulent.
CNN said that the Supreme Court order no longer interfered with the prosecution’s investigation and grand jury proceedings, saying it was Trump’s “bitter defeat.”
New York = correspondent Baek Jong-min [email protected]