Trump is back to take revenge ... the "presumed Republican candidate for 2024" is tightening his grip on the party base
Former US President Donald Trump will address the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida, in his first public appearance since leaving the White House, next weekend.
A senior adviser to former president Lara Trump said he might be interested in running for the presidency again in 2024, according to CNN.
The American "Axios" website quoted informed sources close to Trump that in his first appearance after leaving the presidency, the former president plans to send a message next Sunday in Orlando, stating that he is "the supposed Republican candidate for 2024", and that he is tightening his grip on the party base.
The website quoted the sources as saying that Trump's speech will be a "show of strength," and that the message will be: "I may not have an account on Twitter or the Oval Office, but I am still in control," noting that "revenge is his main obsession."
The site indicated that Trump's advisers will meet with him at his residence in the "Mar-a-Lago" resort this week to plan his upcoming political moves and "prepare the power-holder mechanism" during the midterm elections in 2022.
According to the site, advisers to Trump say that his power within the Republican Party "is deepening and widening more than ever, and that there is no force that can stop him."
For his part, Trump’s senior adviser, Jason Miller, said, “Trump is really the Republican Party. The only gap is between government cronies and Republicans at the grassroots level across the country. When you attack President Trump, you attack the grassroots of the Republicans.”
The site said that Trump's speech next Sunday during the "Conservative Political Action Conference" in Orlando, aims to show that he controls the party, whether he runs for the elections in 2024 or not, and that he intends to say that many of his expectations about President Joe Biden have already been fulfilled.
But some of his advisers say this is not how it will turn out, as this week's meeting aims to impose control.
A source close to the former US president said, "Similarly to 2016, we are winning Washington again."
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