前总统唐纳德·特朗普已经正式宣布他将在2024年竞选总统，这标志着他第三次问鼎白宫。
特朗普周二晚上在佛罗里达州棕榈滩的Mar-a-Lago庄园发表讲话，称“我们是一个正在衰落的国家”和“美国的复苏现在就开始了”。
特朗普几个月来一直暗示的这一声明，正值这位四面楚歌的前总统面临多重刑事和民事调查当他的政党正在努力解决比预期的更糟中期选举中的表现，引发了对前总统对共和党的权力的质疑。
特朗普在2020年竞选连任失败，但没有让步，并继续这样做散布虚假声明2020年的选举被“操纵”和“窃取”，在过去的一年里一再取笑另一场白宫竞选，并在上周告诉集会人群，期待一个“重大声明”。
特朗普第三次竞选总统，在成为自称的“杂志大王”之前，他从一名房地产大亨变成了一名真人秀明星，这是美国历史上前所未有的时刻，一位从未承认选举失败的前一任总统开始努力夺回权力，成为党内提名的领跑者。
特朗普的选举谎言在2021年1月6日达到高潮暴力攻击这是由亲特朗普的支持者在美国国会大厦进行的，目前已有近1000人因此受到刑事指控。这位前总统一再淡化骚乱，并发誓如果他再次当选总统，将赦免那些被指控参与袭击的人。
特朗普是几项联邦调查的对象，包括1月6日的调查，即对特朗普的调查文件的处理在Mar-a-Lago发现的，以及对他羽翼未丰的社交媒体公司Truth Social的调查。
一些助手表示，前总统认为宣布参选将使他免受调查，但许多法律专家表示，竞选不会导致前总统受到任何特殊保护。
此外，特朗普的同名家族房地产企业“特朗普组织”在目前正在审理中如果他再次当选总统，这些指控不会受到影响。该公司否认有不当行为。
特朗普在四年任期内两次被弹劾，但都没有被定罪，他牢牢抓住了自己的共和党基础。根据美国广播公司新闻和华盛顿邮报今年早些时候的民意调查，十分之六的共和党人支持前总统作为他们党的领袖。
在2022年中期选举之前，特朗普的超级政治行动委员会倾注了数百万这位前总统行使他的政治权力，支持他亲手挑选的国会主要席位的候选人，包括宾夕法尼亚州的参议员候选人穆罕默德·奥兹和佐治亚州的赫歇尔·沃克。这位前总统在竞选的最后几周加大了他本已繁忙的集会日程，在选举日之前的周末举行了多场活动。
但在包括奥兹在内的至少30名特朗普支持的候选人之后，输掉了他们的比赛一些人开始质疑他继续为该党赢得选举的能力。
特朗普已经瞄准了一些潜在的总统初选对手，包括可能的2024年竞争对手罗恩·德桑蒂斯周二，他再次当选佛罗里达州州长。在上周发布的一份声明中，特朗普攻击德桑蒂斯是一名“普通”的州长，称德桑蒂斯在2018年特朗普支持他之前“在政治上已经死亡”，并抱怨德桑蒂斯拒绝透露他是否将在2024年竞选总统。
“嗯，就忠诚度和阶级而言，这真的不是正确的答案，”特朗普说，并贬低这位佛罗里达州州长为“罗恩·德桑蒂默尼”。
接近特朗普的消息人士表示，随着佛罗里达州州长的政治之星上升，以及党内一些人表示他们更希望德桑蒂斯而不是他竞选总统，他对德桑蒂斯变得反感。
Trump announces 3rd bid for White House
Former PresidentDonald Trumphas officially announced he is running for president in 2024, marking his third bid for the White House.
Saying "We are a nation in decline" and "America's comeback starts right now," Trump made the announcement Tuesday night in an address from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.
The announcement, which Trump had been hinting at for months, comes as the embattled former president facesmultiple criminal and civil investigationsand as his party is grappling with aworse-than-expectedshowing in the midterm elections, raising questions about the former president's power over the GOP.
Trump, who lost his reelection bid in 2020 but did not concede and has continued tospread false claimsthat the 2020 election was "rigged" and "stolen," repeatedly teased another run for the White House throughout the last year and told a rally crowd last week to expect a "big announcement."
The third presidential run for Trump, who transformed himself from a real estate mogul into a reality TV star before becoming the self-described "MAGA king," comes at an unprecedented point in American history that sees a former one-term president who never conceded his election loss enter a bid to regain power as the frontrunner for his party's nomination.
Trump's election falsehoods culminated on Jan. 6, 2021, in aviolent attackon the U.S. Capitol that was carried out by pro-Trump supporters, for which nearly 1,000 people have now been criminally charged. The former president has repeatedly downplayed the riot and has vowed to pardon those charged in the attack if he becomes president again.
Trump is the subject of several federal investigations, including the Jan. 6 probe, the investigation into Trump'shandling of documentsrecovered at Mar-a-Lago, and an investigation into his fledgling social media company, Truth Social.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he will once again run for U.S. president in the 2024 in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022.
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Some aides have suggested the former president believes that declaring his candidacy will shield him from the probes -- but many legal experts say a run will not result in any special protections for the former president.
In addition, Trump's namesake family real estate business, The Trump Organization, iscurrently on trialin New York for tax evasion and fraud -- charges that would not be affected if he's reelected president. The company has denied wrongdoing.
Trump, who was twice impeached during his four years in office but was not convicted either time, maintains a tight grasp on his Republican base. Six in 10 Republicans back the former president as their party’s leader, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll from earlier this year.
In the lead-up to the 2022 midterms, Trump's Super PACpoured millionsinto key races, and the former president wielded his political power by endorsing hand-picked candidates for major congressional seats, including Senate candidates Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and Herschel Walker in Georgia. The former president ramped up his already busy rally schedule in the final weeks of the campaign, holding multiple events over the weekend leading into Election Day.
But after at least 30 of Trump's endorsed candidates, including Oz,lost their races, some have begun to question his ability to continue winning elections for the party.
Trump has already taken aim at some potential presidential primary opponents, including possible 2024 rivalRon DeSantis, who on Tuesday cruised to reelection as governor of Florida. In a statement released last week, Trump attacked DeSantis as an "average" governor, saying that DeSantis was "politically dead" until Trump endorsed him in 2018 and griping over DeSantis' refusal to say whether he'll run for president in 2024.
"Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer," Trump said, disparaging the Florida governor as "Ron DeSanctimonious."
Sources close to Trump say he has soured on DeSantis as the Florida governor's political star has risen and as some in the party have expressed that they would prefer DeSantis to run for president instead of him.
