Former President Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, seeking a return to the White House after losing his re-election bid to Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump, a Republican and the leader of the “Make America Great Again” movement, announced his third presidential bid on Tuesday during a speech at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, estate, after previously hinting at a run since leaving office in 2021.
Donald Trump said, “In order to make America great and glorious again. I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States. But just as I promised in 2016, I am your voice. I am your voice.
“The Washington establishment wants to silence us, but we will not let them do that. What we have built together over the past six years is the greatest movement in history because it is not about politics. It’s about our love for this great country, America, and we’re not going to let it fail.
“I am running because I believe the world has not yet seen the true glory of what this nation can be. We have not reached that pinnacle, believe it or not. In fact, we can go very far. We’re going to have to go far first.
“We have to get out of this ditch. And once we’re out, you’ll see things that nobody imagined for any country. It’s called the United States of America. And it’s an incredible place.”
Trump defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election.
If re-elected, he will be only the second president to retake the White House after being defeated, a feat accomplished by Grover Cleveland in 1892 after losing the presidency to Benjamin Harrison in 1888. If he wins, Trump will be the 45th and 47th President of the United States.
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Since his defeat, Trump has questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election results, claiming the race was “rigged” due to the COVID pandemic-era mail-in balloting process.
Trump also claimed the election was stolen, and his legal team filed a slew of lawsuits across the country in battleground states.
