The plans of former President Donald Trump to reaffirm his Republican Party leadership and harshly criticize President Biden for his early attention to immigration policy and “identity politics” in his Sunday speech, the first major speech of his life since the White House.
While the former president is expected to call on some of his most vocal critics, including Congresswoman Liz Cheney, has no plans to announce a 2024 campaign to regain the presidency, a senior adviser to Mr. Trump told CBS News.
Trump’s long awaited speech al Conservative Political Action Conference in Florida will serve as a formal launch of an unprecedented moment in modern American history: not since Grover Cleveland lost his re-election candidacy in 1889, a one-term president left office cultivating and encouraging political follow-up so big.
“We are in unfamiliar territory because no other former president of a term in modern times has ever had such a large post-election follow-up,” said the senior adviser, who asked for anonymity to speak. frankly.
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Trump’s statements in Orlando are expected to focus on two main pillars: first, strong attacks on Biden and concern that the far-left Democratic Party controls White House policy and administration. Second, Trump will focus on his hopes for the future of the Republican Party and the Conservative movement.
The former president, who used to rely on social media to cast his complaints and attack perceived rivals, is expected to use his statements on Sunday to resolve some scores.
“There is a very strong probability of certainty that some of these Beltway elites will check the name,” the senior adviser said. But, “Kevin McCarthy is not one of those.”
The senior councilor discussed a Politician report on Saturday that McCarthy, the leader of the House minority, is once again in the former president’s sights as he continues alongside Cheney, the Wyoming congresswoman and the third. Republican of the House. Cheney is among a handful of Republican Party national leaders who strongly denounced the former president’s words and actions before and before the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. In the weeks that followed, he continued to express his hope that the party would move from Mr. Trump.
While the former president and McCarthy are in good condition, the senior adviser said, “There is a 99.99% chance that Liz Cheney will be raised.”
As for Mr. Trump’s views on Mr. Biden, “immigration will be like number one, two and three: amnesty, stopping the contraction of the wall and expanding refugee access from dangerous countries,” he said. ‘senior advisor.
But the former president is also expected to attack the Biden administration’s failure so far in overseeing a national reopening of schools and will strongly defend the Trump administration’s work to help fund the development and distribution of COVID vaccines. -19.
“He will defend his vaccine and be as subtle as one in two,” the senior adviser said.
In recent weeks, Mr. Biden has erroneously said there was “no real plan to vaccinate most of the country” by the outgoing Trump administration, a claim he has backed in recent public statements about the vaccine development. Trump on Sunday is likely to promote his administration’s “Operation Warp Speed,” which provided government funding for the development of the private COVID-19 vaccine sector that is being produced and distributed around the world.
Mr. Trump is also expected to form his anger over the Biden administrations ’early use of executive authorities to stop the multimillion-dollar construction of a new wall along the U.S.-Mexico border; raising the historically low limits on the number of refugees who can enter the United States annually; and plans to extend protections to tens of thousands of people with temporary protection status in countries such as El Salvador, Haiti and Syria.
The senior adviser said the former president is also concerned about the Biden administration’s first focus on diversity and the fight against systemic racism across society.
“The effort they’ve been pushing, like social engineering nonsense, is what worries the former president a lot,” the adviser said.
Biden took the first steps to fulfill the campaign’s commitments to promote racial equity, diversity and gay and transgender rights. His first day in office, he signed an executive order demanding an “ambitious government-wide equity agenda” designed to address concerns about systemic racism and a lack of diversity in the formulation and procurement of federal policies. The administration is also taking steps to rewrite federal application forms and documents to offer or mention gender-neutral options. Biden also reversed the Pentagon’s ban on members of transgender military service.
The White House also claims the historic diversity of the Biden cabinet and high government hiring, including Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, the first African-American man to lead the Pentagon; Xavier Becerra, about to be the first Latin to head the Department of Health and Human Services; and Rachel Levine, nominated for the post of Becerra MP, who would be the first transgender person to be openly confirmed by the Senate.
In his statements, Mr. Trump is expected to dismiss concerns about a possible Republican civil war and express his belief that party bases are firmly in his corner, with only a handful of party leaders opposed to his oversight. continued of the match.
Mr. Trump is also expected to focus his time on the party’s need to win back seats in Congress next year. He has already joined the fight and supported one of his former aides, Max Miller, who on Friday launched a major challenge against Ohio Republican Congressman Anthony Gonzalez. Gonzalez is one of ten House Republicans who voted in January to oust Trump.
Part of the reason Trump has no plans to announce a rematch with Biden is that he is currently launching several political entities designed to help elect candidates to Congress and the GOP Governance next year and keep their own open. options.
His 2020 campaign committee has been converted and renamed the Make American Great Again PAC and is now linked to the Save America PAC, from which the former president has sent political statements and endorsements. They are linked by a joint fund-raising committee that will raise funds to fund the two entities that, among other things, can give GOP candidates and pay for the former president’s political travel.
Trump is also preparing to launch a super PAC that will be overseen by political assistant Corey Lewandowski and other associates who would lead a board of directors, possibly including former small business administrator Linda McMahon, according to the senior adviser.
“It is very clear that he is in the best position to lead the party,” the senior adviser said. “He is the one who has the vision, he is the one who masters the problems and he is able to provide the sharpest contrast with the Democrats. The speech will make it clear that he is better prepared to do that.”