WASHINGTON – Donald Trump launched a comeback bid Tuesday night, jumping into the 2024 campaign as a divisive but formidable front-runner – buoyed by unshakable support from the base and resisted by a sizable number of party insiders.
“We are a nation in decline,” he told cheering backers at his Mar-a-Lago estate. “In order to make America great and glorious again I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.”
Twice impeached and still refusing to acknowledge that he won the White House only once, the ex-president invoked many of the same themes that propelled him to the White House in 2016: a nationalist appeal mixed with dark warnings about lawlessness at the border and a loss of respect abroad.