Former President Trump told Republican Party major donors on Saturday night that he was optimistic about the GOP’s chances for success in the 2022 means and to recapture the White House in 2024, according to prepared remarks received by CBS News. Mr. Trump did not say whether he would be on the card at the election, but he teased a potential candidate twice, according to a contestant during his speech.
“I stand before you tonight, confident that in 2022 we will take back the House and reclaim the Senate – and then in 2024 a Republican candidate will win the White House,” he said. Trump’s prepared remarks said.
According to the participant in the event, however, the former president often deviated from the text during his almost hour-long speech. Mr. Trump has again targeted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. Trump exploded after his acquittal in his second indictment, calling McConnell a “total loss of stone cold.”
According to a source, Mr. Trump also during the speech in 2020 during his speech remained unfounded complaining about fraud. The former president and his allies lost more than 60 court cases, disputing the outcome of the November election, and Mr. Trump’s own attorney general said there was no evidence of fraud at a level that could have affected another outcome in the election. ‘
The former president’s speech is the keynote address of the Republican National Committee spring donor refuge. The event brought the GOP’s largest donors to South Florida over the weekend to discuss the party’s future and plan a way to recapture Congress in 2022 and the White House in 2024.
The key to success, according to the prepared remarks of Mr. Trump, is to “build on the gains our amazing movement has made over the past four years.” He highlighted the new voters he brought into the IDP and stressed that his populist “America First” message would help the party grow.
The former president also fired on President Biden over various policies pursued by the current government, which Trump feels he has undone his work in areas such as energy policy and border security.
The closed-door refuge has also featured potential 2024 candidates, including senators Tom Cotton and Rick Scott and governors Ron DeSantis and Kristi Noem. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senators Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson and Marco Rubio and former Presidential Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway also spoke or appeared on panels. Some of the panels during the withdrawal focused on issues such as party unity, growth of the IDP and major technological censorship.
Mr. Trump and other speakers at the withdrawal have skewed corporations over recent political activism, especially those who have spoken out against it Georgia’s new suffrage bill. During a reception Friday night, Cotton targeted companies that spoke out against the bill while still maintaining ties with China, according to a source familiar with his remarks.
“Major League Baseball and massive corporations like Delta and Coca-Cola are boycotting an entire state for approving voter ID laws,” Cotton told donors. “To these companies, I say this: if you remain silent about the genocide of the Chinese Communist Party while begging for their cause, you should not start teaching Americans about reader IDs.”
The donor conference comes as the IDP continues to navigate its next steps with the 2022 midterm elections approaching. While some party leaders themselves a bit of mr. Trump distanced himself after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, indicating the former president’s first speech during this retreat, and the opportunity to bring in part to his Mar-a-Lago golf club, many the GOP believe he a role in the future of the party.
“Palm Beach is the new center of political power, and President Trump is the Republican Party’s best messenger,” said Jason Trump, Trump’s senior assistant.
The former president had a strained relationship with the party’s fundraising apparatus in late February and early March, but it appears to have been resolved. During his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, Trump encouraged activists to give to his political action committee, Save America.
In March, he clashed with the RNC and other IDP committees over the use of his name and parable for fundraising. In a statement issued on March 9, Mr. Trump indicated that he ‘fully supports the Republican Party and key GOP committees, but I do not support RINOs, an abbreviation for’ Republican in name only ‘.
Mar-a-Lago was a regular destination for Republicans to raise money or meet with the former president. Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, running for office governor of Arkansas, was one of the youngest to hold an event at the club over the weekend. McCarthy and other top Republicans visited the former president at his club.
Mr. Trump extended some endorsements, mostly to the incumbents, but this week he weighed in on his first public Senate primary when he endorsed Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks. In his statement in which he endorsed Brooks, Mr. Trump wrote that Brooks “fights for voter integrity (like few others).”
The former president also agreed with Sanders in her government and former assistant Max Miller, who is acting against Ohio GOP representative Anthony Gonzalez – one of the ten Republicans in the House who voted to accuse the former president.