Former President Donald Trump dropped his largest trace to this point that he might run once more in 2024 at a rally in Texas, telling his supporters “I’ll in all probability should do it once more.”
“I ran twice. I received twice. I did a lot better the second time than I did earlier than,” Trump mentioned Saturday night in Robstown, Texas, the place he spoke in an effort to spice up GOP candidates within the Lone Star State.
“Getting hundreds of thousands extra votes in 2020 than 2016 and likewise, getting extra votes than any sitting president within the historical past of our nation by far. And now to be able to make our nation profitable, secure and superb once more, I’ll in all probability should do it once more,” he mentioned.
Later within the speech, the forty fifth president referred to the “silent majority” of voters who propelled him to the White Home in 2016, saying they’re “again stronger than ever earlier than.”
“My fellow residents, this unimaginable journey we’re on collectively has solely simply begun,” he mentioned.
His look on the rally in South Texas was his first in public for the reason that Home choose committee investigating his function within the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot issued him a subpoena to testify and switch over paperwork.
He lashed out at “these crooked individuals” on the panel and mentioned they’re ignoring the actual investigation into his claims of rampant fraud within the 2020 presidential election and as an alternative specializing in him.
“If we fly over a Democrat state, we get a grand jury subpoena,” he mentioned. “They’ve been me for a very long time. … They discovered nothing.”
