Trump repeats election lie, hints at 2024 run
TRUMP: "Who knows? I may even decide to beat them for a third time. Okay?"
Former President Donald Trump hinted at a possible run for president again in 2024 on Sunday and repeated his fraudulent claims that he won the 2020 election...
TRUMP: "This election was rigged."
...in his first major appearance since leaving the White House in defeat.
TRUMP: "There's never been a journey so successful. We began it together four years ago and it is far from being over."
Trump also attacked the winner of the 2020 election during his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida, criticizing President Joe Biden's handling of border security in a throwback to how Trump kicked off his presidential campaign in 2016.
TRUMP: "Joe Biden has triggered a massive flood of illegal immigration into our country the likes of which we have never seen before. They're coming up by the tens of thousands... They're not giving us their best and their finest. Remember I said that. I said that a long time ago."
Trump declared the GOP was united while also attacking his fellow Republicans, listing the names of those in the party who voted to convict him in his second Senate impeachment trial for inciting the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, when his supporters attempted to block Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory.
TRUMP: "Mitt Romney, little Ben Sasse, Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey... and of course the warmonger, a person who loves seeing our troops fighting, Liz Cheney. How 'bout that? ... Get rid of them all."
Trump said he had no plans to try to launch a third party, an idea he had discussed with advisers in the last couple of months.
TRUMP: "I am not starting a new party."
Trump's flirtation with another run could freeze the Republican field for 2024 as other potential candidates try to decide whether they dare to run against him.
