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Rais huyo aliyeshindwa Uchaguzi Mkuu wa 2020 ametangaza kuutaka tena Urais licha ya uchunguzi mwingi unaoendelea dhidi yake kuhusu Matumizi Mabaya ya Madaraka na Ukwepaji Kodi
"Ili kuifanya Marekani iwe Kuu na Utukufu tena, leo ninatangaza kugombea Urais. Kuanzia sasa hadi siku ya uchaguzi nitapigana kama hakuna mtu aliyewahi kupigana hapo awali. Tutawashinda Democrats wanaoharibu nchi yetu kutoka ndani."
Jaribio la Trump kurejea White House linakuja siku chache baada Chama chake (Republican) kumlaumu kwa kupoteza Kura za Bunge la Seneti kwenye uchaguzi wa katikati ya muhula.
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PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he would again seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024, despite multiple ongoing investigations into his conduct, stinging midterm election losses for candidates he endorsed and mounting criticism from members of his own party.
"America's comeback starts right now," Trump declared during a meandering speech given from a ballroom at his Mar-a-Lago country club and home, adding, "Two years ago, we were a great nation, and soon we will be a great nation again."
"In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States," he later added.
Still, Trump enters the race as a Republican powerhouse and the likely front-runner to win the Republican nomination for a third consecutive time. His latest campaign comes just two years after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden and falsely claimed that the contest had been rigged against him, leading his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, to stage a violent insurrection at the Capitol in an attempt to block the peaceful transfer of power.
On Tuesday, without evidence, Trump suggested that the Chinese government had intervened in the last election in order to keep him from being reelected and imposing tariffs on Chinese goods.
"Many people think that because of this China played a very active role in the 2020 election — just saying, just saying," Trump said.
In his speech, he sought to portray the country as having slipped into crisis since his departure from the White House.
"All they had to do," Trump said of the Biden administration, "was just sit back and watch. Inflation was nonexistent, our Southern border was by far the strongest ever, and because the border was so tight, drugs were coming into our country at the lowest level in many, many years."
As the first candidate to enter the 2024 presidential race, Trump’s attempt to seize the national spotlight again comes after a week of harsh criticism from Republican politicians and pundits. They blame him for midterm election losses that cost the GOP both control of the U.S. Senate and a wider margin of victory in the House of Representatives. In dozens of statewide races, candidates who parroted Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, such as Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial nominee, Kari Lake, went down to defeat.
The poor performance of candidates endorsed by Trump almost instantly led Republicans to cast their gaze upon his apparent rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who won his reelection bid on Nov. 8 by a stunning 20-point margin. Some Republicans pointed to the midterms as a sign that the party should move on from the former president.
Trump insisted on holding his event Tuesday, ignoring pleas from current and former advisers to delay it until after the Georgia run-off election for U.S. Senate between the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Raphael Warnock, and the Trump-backed Republican nominee, Herschel Walker. This put Trump at odds with many of his own allies, and also created a conflict for many of his top surrogates in Congress, who had spent the day in the Capitol battling over leadership posts and over who would control their respective caucuses. By the time most Republican lawmakers had finished private meetings late Tuesday afternoon, it was already too late to catch last-minute flights to Florida.
Instead of a show of in-person support from Republican Congressional leaders or GOP Governors, many of whom gathered earlier in the day in nearby Orlando at a meeting of the the Republican Governors Association, Tuesday’s announcement was attended by notable such right wing personalities as My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, conservative radio host Eric Metaxas, former Acting Director of U.S. National Intelligence Richard Grenell and former Trump head of the Office of Management and Budget Russel Vought.
“DeSantis is young. He can wait,” Metaxas told Yahoo News regarding whether the Florida governor should seek the presidency in 2024.
Other attendees included Sebastian Gorka, the conservative media personality who served briefly as a White House adviser, and Roger Stone, the notorious political operative Trump pardoned in 2020 who first stoked his political ambitions four decades ago.
Stone said Trump would pick off his potential GOP rivals in the coming campaign much as he had done in 2016.
"I don’t think his chief opponent can stand too much scrutiny," Stone said of DeSantis, adding, "If he wants to run, let him run."
As the eclectic crowd arrived at Mar-a-Lago and mingled beneath a large "Make America Great Again" banner, the gathering was notably absent of Republican elected officials, with the exception of Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., who lost his 2022 Republican primary. And with little more than an hour before the event began, Arkansas’ Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson made it known that he would not be supporting Trump in the coming cycle.
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