Former President Donald Trump Plans to reaffirm his Republican leadership and sharply criticize President Biden for an early focus on immigration policy and ‘identity politics’ in his speech Sunday, the first major speech in his life after the White House.
While the former president is expected to call out some of his most outspoken critics, including Congresswoman Liz Cheney, he has no plans to announce a 2024 campaign to win back the presidency, a senior adviser to Mr. Trump to CBS News.
Mr. Trump’s heartily expected speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida will serve as the formal launch of an unprecedented moment in modern American history: Not since Grover Cleveland lost its re-election offer in 1889 has a one-term president left office to cultivate such a large political following and to to encourage.
“We are in an uncharted area because no other former presidential commissioner in modern times has had such a large number of post-elections,” said the senior adviser, who asked anonymity to speak honestly.
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Mr. Trump’s remarks in Orlando are expected to focus on two main pillars: First, strong attacks on Biden and concerns that the far left of the Democratic Party controls the White House and administration policy. Second, Trump will focus on his hopes for the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement.
The former president, who relied on social media to air his grievances and attack suspected opponents, is expected to use his remarks on Sunday to settle some counts.
“There is a very strong chance that there is almost certainty that some of the Beltway elite will be name checked,” the senior adviser said. But, “Kevin McCarthy is not one of them.”
The senior adviser on Saturday disputed a Politico report that McCarthy, the House’s minority leader, is back in the former president’s crossroads because he remains standing with Cheney, the congresswoman of Wyoming and the Republic of the third rank. Cheney is among just a handful of national GOP leaders who have strongly denounced the former president’s words and actions before and after the January 6 uprising at the US Capitol. In the weeks that followed, she still expressed her hope that the party of Mr.
While the former president and McCarthy are on good terms, the senior adviser said: “There is a 99.99% chance that Liz Cheney will be raised.”
What Trump’s thoughts on Mr. Biden concerns: ‘Immigration will be like issue one, two and three – amnesty, the restriction of the wall and the expansion of access to refugees from dangerous countries’, the senior adviser said.
But it is also expected that the former president will attack the failure of the Biden government so far to oversee a national reopening of schools, and he will continue the Trump administration’s work to develop and distribute COVID-19 to help finance vaccines, strongly defended.
“He will defend his vaccine work and be about as subtle as two-four about it,” the senior adviser said.
In the past few weeks, Mr. Biden erroneously said that there was “no real plan to vaccinate most of the country” from the outgoing Trump administration, a claim he has supported in recent public comments on vaccine development. Mr. Trump is likely to propose his “Operation Warp Speed” on Sunday, which provided government funding for the development of private-sector COVID-19 vaccines now being manufactured and distributed around the world.
Mr. Trump is also expected to vent his anger over the Biden administration’s earlier use of executive power to stop the construction of a new wall along the U.S.-Mexico border; lift historically low limits on the number of refugees that can be admitted to the United States annually; and plans to extend protection to tens of thousands of people under temporary protected status from countries including El Salvador, Haiti and Syria.
The senior adviser said the former president was also concerned about the Biden government’s early focus on diversity and tackling systemic racism in society.
The former president is very concerned about the efforts they have made, such as nonsense for social engineering, “the adviser said.
Mr. Biden has taken earlier steps to live up to the campaign’s promises to promote racial equality, diversity and gay and transgender rights. On his first day in office, he signed an executive order demanding an “ambitious government justice agenda” designed to address concerns about systemic racism and a lack of diversity in federal policy-making and appointment. The administration is also taking steps to rewrite federal application forms and documents to offer or name gender-neutral options. Mr. Biden also overturned a Pentagon ban on members of transgender military service.
The White House also highlights the historic diversity of the Biden cabinet and senior government appointments, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the first African-American man to lead the Pentagon; Xavier Becerra, the first Latino to lead the Department of Health and Human Services; and Rachel Levine, nominated to serve as Becerra’s deputy, who would be the first openly transgender person ever confirmed by the Senate.
In his remarks, it is expected that Mr. Trump will reject concerns about a potential Republican civil war and express his conviction that the party’s grassroots level is in his corner, with only a handful of party leaders opposed to his continued oversight of the party.
Mr. Trump is also expected to concentrate his time on the party’s need to win back congressional seats next year. He has already joined the fight and endorsed one of his former assistants, Max Miller, who launched a primary challenge against Republican Congressman Anthony Gonzalez of Ohio on Friday. Gonzalez is one of ten House Republicans who voted in January to accuse Trump.
Part of the reason why Mr. Trump does not plan a reunion with Mr. What he is bidding to announce is that he is tentatively launching several political institutions designed to assist in the election of GOP congress and government candidates next year – and to keep his own options open.
Its campaign committee for 2020 was transformed and renamed the Make American Great Again PAC and is now linked to the Save America PAC, from which the former president sent out statements and political endorsements. They are linked by a joint fundraising committee that will raise funds to bankroll both institutions that can, among other things, donate to IDP candidates and pay for the political trip of the former president.
Mr. Trump is also preparing to launch a super-PAC that will be overseen by longtime, time-and-again political collaborator Corey Lewandowski and other associates who will lead a board of directors, including possibly the former small business manager Linda McMahon, according to the senior adviser.
“It is very clear that he is in the best position to lead the party forward,” the senior adviser said. “He is the one with the vision, he is the one who handles the issues and can provide the sharpest contrast with the Democrats. The speech will make it clear that he is best prepared to do so.”